How to Use alive to in a Sentence
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To make art that is alive to politics is to make art that is alive to the world.
—Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
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With nobody alive to help them, the kids begin to plot their own escape.
—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 23 Jan. 2026
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Her skin is alive to the myriad tastes of the water all around her and to distant smells.
—Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
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Pask wishes the author was alive to see what Colossal is doing.
—Mike Snider, USA Today, 17 Feb. 2026
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Her legacy felt too alive to be associated with death or loss.
—Literary Hub, 24 Nov. 2025
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It's been so long that Gifford's heartbroken mother is no longer alive to see the day.
—Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 15 July 2026
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One effort was to scapegoat Robespierre and his closest friends, who were no longer alive to defend themselves.
—Time, 21 Oct. 2025
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At Last, by Marisa Silver, which is alive to what soars within ordinary life.
—Megha Majumdar, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
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The multiplayer was also so good that there’s still a big community of diehards keeping it alive to this day.
—Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 31 Oct. 2025
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But Guadagnino, alive to the pleasure of every line reading, maintains a pretty good poker face.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
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Unfortunately, that same character is no longer alive to enjoy the bragging rights.
—Josh Wigler, HollywoodReporter, 29 Aug. 2025
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And the Bears are alive to see one more round of the playoffs, at least one more opportunity this season to see what Williams can do next.
—Kevin Fishbain, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2026
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Abbott is not alive to get his perspective vindicated, nor is Madison around to be freed of her abusive husband.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025
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Both were a byword, too, for male beauty, fully alive to the almost laughable impact of their handsomeness, yet ill at ease, now and then, with their perches on the pedestal.
—Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2025
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Writer-director Ryan Coogler has made a picture that’s alive to the mystery of music, with its power to both divide and unite.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 3 Dec. 2025
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Picasso’s portrait of Gertrude went to the Met, depriving Alice of a presence that felt alive to her.
—Judith Thurman, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
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Lucky for us, the Amazon Big Spring Sale has ended but some deals on amazing tablets are still alive to make your life easier.
—Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 1 Apr. 2026
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Shawn and Gregory have been grappling with the insoluble problem of just how much of one’s life one can or even should be fully alive to for half a century.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2026
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For the first time since 1922, Virginia Halas McCaskey wasn’t alive to witness it.
—Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2026
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For the first time since 1922, Virginia Halas McCaskey wasn’t alive to witness it.
—Sean Hammond, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2026
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With enemies closing in from all sides, Eden must keep Ben alive long enough to complete her mission, while Ben must stay alive to return home to his daughter.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 11 Nov. 2025
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This description of an urban scene is of a piece with many of Myles’s poems, which are so alive to dailiness and detail, to the everyday architecture of our feelings.
—Literary Hub, 13 July 2026
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Unfortunately—or maybe fortunately for them—many dinosaurs were not alive to experience this global-wildfire-pitch-black hellscape.
—Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 17 July 2026
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Mangione is very much alive to this day and awaiting his federal trial, which was recently postponed to January 2027.
—Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 9 July 2026
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Robert has brought his personal mission of keeping his dad's memory alive to the Dancing With the Stars ballroom on more than one occasion already.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025
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In South Florida, where witnesses are still alive to be asked that question in person, what Florida builds right now is the only honest answer available.
—Masha Pearl, Sun Sentinel, 5 July 2026
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The Football Association, the governing body of the sport in England, has to be alive to opportunities like this.
—Beren Cross, New York Times, 11 July 2026
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Nearly two years later, 148 hostages have been returned alive to Israel, but the Israeli government says 47 are still held captive inside Gaza.
—Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025
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And as anyone who was alive to witness the tragedy and its aftermath in real life, husband and wife died on July 16, 1999, in the crash of a small plane piloted by Kennedy.
—Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2026
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Inspired by real riders, biker gangs, and based on true events that David Mann encountered throughout his life as a rider, Mann was alive to reap the benefits of his fame, something rarely afforded to many artists.
—Dominick Williams, Kansas City Star, 28 Sep. 2025
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