How to Use long-lived in a Sentence

long-lived

adjective

• Boxwoods are easy to grow, green year-round, and long-lived.
  — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Apr. 2026
• Ferns are easy to grow, low-maintenance, and long-lived.
  — Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 22 June 2026
• Peonies are easy to grow and long-lived once established.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 21 Apr. 2026
• Perennial weeds live for two or more years, with many being quite long-lived.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 28 Aug. 2025
• Azaleas can be very long-lived and reach massive proportions.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2025
• Perennial Weeds Perennial weeds live for two or more years, with many being quite long-lived.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 14 June 2026
• Dolphins, being long-lived and highly exposed, can serve as nature's early warning system.
  — Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 14 Oct. 2025
• Large and long-lived tornadoes are possible, along with destructive wind gusts up to 80 mph, and hail up to the size of baseballs.
  — Kenton Gewecke, ABC News, 16 June 2026
• This frustration is long-lived for architectural designers.
  — Anthony Paletta, Curbed, 17 May 2026
• Some perennials are very long-lived, such as the peony, daylily, and false indigo, while others are relatively short-lived, such as the lupine, columbine, and delphinium.
  — David Beaulieu, The Spruce, 15 Feb. 2026
• Credentials become long-lived because rotating them requires effort nobody budgets for.
  — Huzefa Olia, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2026
• In fact, most readers of Dickinson are unaware of the intense and long-lived relationship that was at the very core of the poet’s emotional and creative life.
  — Via Chronicle Books, Literary Hub, 11 Dec. 2025
• And while film festivals that are long-lived, and well-attended, may appear to be indestructible meeting places, these spaces are often fragile, hard-won and complex to preserve.
  — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 3 Mar. 2026
• This design has the potential to reduce the total volume of long-lived spent fuel produced per unit of energy generated and to increase resistance to nuclear proliferation.
  — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 19 Apr. 2026
• One supercell thunderstorm was particularly strong and long-lived, starting near Del Rio before tracking east-northeast through the Texas Hill Country.
  — Anthony Franze, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Mar. 2026
• Several of my favorite festivals happen simultaneously, including the much-loved and long-lived Under the Radar, which this year spreads its umbrella over thirty-two productions.
  — Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2026
• Its design targets better fuel utilization, higher burnup, longer refueling cycles, stronger safety margins, and reduced volumes of long-lived spent fuel for each unit of electricity generated.
  — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 4 Aug. 2026
• The early implementation of this technology will be necessary in order to limit exposure, particularly in industries that manage sensitive or long-lived data.
  — Chuck Brooks, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
• And neurons, being long-lived, are especially vulnerable to protein clumps, according to the new study’s co-lead author Rishav Mitra, a postdoctoral fellow in Bellono’s lab.
  — Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 29 July 2026