How to Use alive in a Sentence

alive

adjective

• It feels great to be alive.
• We need to keep hope alive.
• The team needs to win tonight in order to stay alive in the play-offs.
• The sheriff was ordered to find the killer and bring him back alive.
• I love to sail because it makes me feel so alive.
• The patient was barely alive.
• He managed to stay alive for a week without any food.
• The patient is being kept alive by artificial means.
• The dream of the '90s will be alive in Rogers next summer.
  — Monica Hooper, Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2023
• The Comets kept their hopes alive and got the game to overtime.
  — Nathan Dunn, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2024
• When the books are read though the AR/VR devices, the books come alive.
  — Derek Newton, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2022
• Five of the patients were still alive during the study and were in their 50s.
  — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 29 Jan. 2024
• The one who keeps them alive and in turn draws his own life force.
  — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 11 Jan. 2023
• Disco & Cocktail Club, the dream of the 1970s is alive and well.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2023
• The fish, still alive, would likely fight on to try to spawn.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 28 Aug. 2022
• The shades together feel alive, but not too on the nose.
  — Christina Holevas, Vogue, 27 Jan. 2024
• The path to greatness might change but the vision is still alive.
  — Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 14 Feb. 2025
• Green tissue in the middle means the grass is still alive.
  — Lynn Coulter, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Aug. 2024
• My mom and dad are still alive; all of them are Mormon.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2024
• But look, now the river’s clean and the banks are alive with trees, small parks and restaurants.
  — Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2023
• This celeb dad knows how to have fun and keep the nostalgia alive.
  — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 17 Oct. 2023
• His dad, Cecil Garvin, learned Hoocąk as a child, and is one of the few still alive who did.
  — Sarah Volpenhein, Journal Sentinel, 30 Aug. 2022
• Can the Jaguars take care of business and keep their playoff hopes alive?
  — Richard Morin, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2022
• Hailey Van Lith has come alive and has scored 20 or more points in five of the last six games.
  — Cameron Teague Robinson, The Courier-Journal, 27 Mar. 2022
• The objects are alive because the space is alive because the grays are alive.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
• Both of their teams remain alive in the playoffs this week as well.
  — Ben Thomas | [e-mail], al, 9 Nov. 2022
• In either case, the grass might look and feel dead, but the crown and roots are likely still alive.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 July 2024
• Keep the spirt of summer alive with a breezy maxidress—just pair it with knee-high boots and you’re all set.
  — Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 9 Oct. 2024
• The younger Sanderson and his teammates are still alive in the Stanley Cup playoffs.
  — Julian McKenzie, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025
• Like, Crash is about people tempting fate to feel alive, while The Shrouds is about the living feeling alive through the dead.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2025