Definition: 1. The state of continuing to live or exist, often despite difficulty or danger. 2. A state of surviving; remaining alive. 3. A natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment. 4. Something that survives.
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Use 'survival' in a sentence:
1. In extreme poverty, the households cannot meet basic needs for survival.
2. Too many species of salmon are competing for survival in one river.
3. Is communication so important to our survival and marriage system as individuals?
4. As regards commercial survival, a car manufacturer capable of making only 50,000 cars a year is on a hiding to nothing.
5. If cancers are spotted early there's a high chance of survival.
6. They may hate what he does but their survival depends on him.
7. Perhaps then we would finally begin to live, rather than being concerned with bare survival.
8. The survival of the proteins depends on the way in which bones are fossilized.
9. Please teach him the tricks and strategies of survival.
10. Ask for the free booklet 'Debt: a Survival Guide'.
11. His only chance of survival was a heart transplant.
12. Have you taught him the tricks and strategies of survival?
13. In extreme poverty, households cannot meet basic needs for survival.
14. The ceremony is a survival from pre-Christian times.
15. Another challenge to language survival is television.
16. From then on, mother and daughter have depended on each other for survival.
17. Our survival is inextricably linked to the survival of the rainforest.
18. The old man was a survival of a past age.
19. His most celebrated work is the film classic, 'Woman in the Dunes,' a gritty look at survival in an extreme environment.
20. The name of the game is survival.
21. With the changes in the world's climate, dinosaurs died, but many smaller animals lived on. It was the survival of the fittest.
22. Providing they do not panic, I believe that their chances of survival will be beyond 95 per cent.
23. All animals have an instinct to seek survival.
24. This is an organism that is potentially deadly to the continued survival of human beings.
25. I dare to hope that your heart will be touched by the tidings of my survival.
26. Such inclinations are essential to our survival.
27. He was told that he had a one in 500 chance of survival.
28. Reduction in numbers of games should have boded ill for their survival in later times.
29. He mistakenly ascribes the expression 'survival of the fittest' to Charles Darwin.
30. In these rural areas, people depended on each other for survival.
31. All living beings are endowed with an instinct for survival.
32. The evaporation of chemicals is necessary for their survival.
33. Now, migration is a natural survival strategy.
34. Where survival depends on the element of surprise, it may indeed pay to be different.
35. We must cultivate compassion for ourselves, for others and for our survival.
36. Even microscopic organisms rely on microclimates for survival.
37. They rely on microclimates for survival.
38. The seed's chances of survival are greatly enhanced over those of the naked spore.
39. The specialist who carried out the brain scan thought Tim's chances of survival were still slim.
40. The operation was Kelly's only hope of survival.
41. The survival of the proteins depends on the way in which bones are fossilised.
42. Yesterday's meeting was intended to plot a survival strategy for the party.
43. There is no need for you to beg others for survival.
44. Farmers struggling for survival strip the forests for agricultural land.
45. It was a matter of simple survival.
46. Nowadays a premature baby has a very good chance of survival.
47. He owed his survival to his strength as a swimmer.
48. Life became a struggle for survival.
49. A struggle for survival follows.
50. All other issues fade into insignificance compared with the struggle for survival.
51. The community depends on the shipping industry for its survival.
52. An animal's sense of smell is still crucial to its survival.
53. Maternal age affects the baby's survival rate.
54. Low salinity and high temperatures favor the survival of the starfish larvae.
55. Societies need to develop highly adaptive behavioural rules for survival.
56. Exporting is necessary for our economic survival.
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