LIVE in a Sentence

Learn LIVE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

420 example sentences for LIVE, such as:

1. He may live twenty years longer.
2. I shall now live solely for my family.
3. They that live longest must die at last.
4. A lot of art students live in this dorm.
5. Enough, it is my purpose to live and die unknown.

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 Meanings and Examples of LIVE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
live
 v.  continue to be alive or have life
 v.  have your home somewhere
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  You must create a female for me with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
2  "You live in West Egg," she remarked contemptuously.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
3  "You ought to live in California--" began Miss Baker but Tom interrupted her by shifting heavily in his chair.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
4  I can't forget so long as I live the night they shot Rosy Rosenthal there.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
5  He come out to see me two years ago and bought me the house I live in now.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
6  Enough, it is my purpose to live and die unknown.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE INTERVIEW
7  A great deal too handsome, in my opinion, for any place THEY can ever afford to live in.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
8  We shall live within a few miles of each other, and shall meet every day of our lives.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
9  He may live twenty years longer.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8
10  In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out again with a cry of pain.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
11  I tried, therefore, to dress my food in the same manner, placing it on the live embers.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
12  I shall now live solely for my family.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 46
13  If we all did what we undertake to do, as faithfully as Herbert did, we might live in a Republic of the Virtues.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXIV
14  I lived rough, that you should live smooth; I worked hard, that you should be above work.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXIX
15  It was obviously made with the assurance that he could not live so long, and was refused.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LVI
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  See, listen, and be silent, and you will live in peace.
17  We hope to grow old, yet we fear old age; that is, we are willing to live, and afraid to die.
18  No man is so old, but thinks he may yet live another year.
19  He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day.
20  She is quick to reproach anyone who doesn't live up to her own high standards.
21  Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it, anything but live for it.
22  Why not be the person to prove anything,to live better,is for youself.
23  Do not keep anything for a special occasion, because every day that you live is a special occasion.
24  The building of a new dam will displace thousands of people who live in this area.
25  A lot of art students live in this dorm.
26  Live as though you intend to live forever, and work as though your strength were limit less.
27  They live together, work together and socialize together.
28  They that live longest must die at last.
29  The debate was televised in front of a live audience.
30  This British author has chosen to live in relative anonymity on a Pacific island.