How to Use survival mechanism in a Sentence

survival mechanism

noun

• And the plants that are able to recover will likely shed several leaves as a survival mechanism.
  — Tessa Cooper, The Spruce, 26 June 2026
• Humor has always been a survival mechanism for Jewish people but also me.
  — Erica Zora Wrightson, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2026
• This inner tug-of-war can produce a survival mechanism masquerading as preparation.
  — Melissa Sierra, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
• Even as the film transforms into a murky crime saga defined by its striking, gloomy environment, it is buoyed by the dramatic radiance of this tragic contradiction, born of decades (and centuries) of the Kinnar’s survival mechanism.
  — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 20 May 2026
• The idea reverberates in recent efforts within domestic-violence advocacy to reframe victims’ solicitousness as a survival mechanism.
  — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026