How to use "alive" in a sentence

Can I eat them, I wonder? Even if I could, it wouldn't be enough to keep me alive.

I'll try to stay alive as long as I can, but I can't imagine living longer than one more day

The thought of seeing them again is keeping me alive

I don't know if this is true, but I'm still alive when the sun rises

The sun is shining and I feel free, happy, and alive.

I can't believe I'm still alive

Perhaps the vision of the little boy kept me alive last night

Thoughts of the people I love had kept me alive

My job is to study everything dead or alive under the sea

I want it, dead or alive!"

We hoped dial in the morning someone from the ship could see us if we were still alive.

Maybe he is still alive, living under the sea

Two of them were dead, and Doyle was only just alive.

After that only one person saw her alive again - her killer.

Nobody saw her alive again; she never came back for her bed.

Mrs Tanner, the deputy, said she last saw Elizabeth alive about 7 p.m

The man had a terrible wound in his head, but he was still alive.

Then Valjean frowned and, after a quick calculation, decided that Marius was probably still alive

When Javert stared at him, speechless with surprise, Valjean went on, I don't suppose I'll leave here alive

'Marius, my child, grandson! You're alive after all!'

It is a cold smile, but Branwell sees that the man's eyes look a little more alive now

The creek is twenty metres from the farm house, and the evening seems to be alive with insects and birds that live in the trees near the green water.

The forest is alive with life.

It is night time, and around the roof of the thirty-floor casino and hotel, the city of Las Vegas is alive with colour

"He's alive!" she whispered

"My brother Eston is alive."

We know you can't leave your city, but now I hear that maybe messages can reach you, if you are still alive

Wow! Imagine that: thinking your brother might be alive after all that time."

"So, was that note really from Gran's brother? Are people alive out there - outside the city? How did you get the note across the force field?" She had so many questions.

But none of Cham's grandparents were alive, so maybe it wasn't surprising that he found it hard to believe in another world.

But the writing still looked fresh and alive.

When the late Mrs de Winter was alive, there were lots of parties and visitors, of course

They used the rooms in the west wing when Mrs de Winter was alive

'I think he came to Manderley quite a lot when Rebecca was alive

'Mr de Winter was jealous of Mr Favell when she was alive

Again, she was possessed by the haunting feeling that her child was alive

Also, she'd recently been plagued by a repeating dream in which Danny was alive

That night Tina dreamed that Danny was alive again

For almost five minutes, the room seemed to have come alive.

Danny's cry escalated into a scream of terror; he was being buried alive

She took hold of the two lines - one heavy cable and one ordinary insulated wire - and they seemed to come alive in her hands, like a pair of snakes, resisting her

"I dream he's alive, trapped somewhere, usually in a deep pit or a gorge or a well, someplace underground

It never lasts for long, but when I first wake up, I'm sure he's alive somewhere

maybe Danny is alive."

Maybe that someone is trying to tell me that Danny is alive

"Won't you even consider the possibility that he's alive?"

"If he were alive," Elliot said patiently, "someone would simply come and tell you

If Danny were alive, and if someone were trying to get that news to you, it wouldn't be done like this, not with all these dramatic hints

"If you convince yourself he's alive," Elliot said, "you're only setting yourself up for another fall."

I wouldn't be able to fantasize about Danny still being alive."

In those days, the corpse was not embalmed; therefore, the boy was buried while still alive

But the first night in the country, the mother received a vision in which Kevin was buried alive and calling for her

They arrived at the grave by dawn, had it opened, and found their son alive, released from his coma

She had dreamed that Danny was buried alive

The lead story in this issue was about a boy, approximately Danny's age, mistakenly pronounced dead, then buried alive, and then exhumed.

To tell her that Danny had been buried alive?

He could not have been buried alive

And if, by some million-to-one chance, the boy had been alive when he'd been buried, why would it take an entire year for her to receive a vision from the spirit world?

"At least we're still alive," he said.

"How to stay alive."

In the story, the boy was buried alive

"Listen," she said excitedly, "we thought someone was sending me messages about Danny being alive just to rub my face in the fact that he was actually dead - or to let me know, in a roundabout fashion, that the way he died wasn't anything like what I'd been told

"My Danny is alive! I'm sure of it."

But how do you figure Danny's alive? That doesn't necessarily follow."

Danny was trying to reassure me, trying to tell me that he was still alive

He has some power, and he's reaching out, trying to tell me he's alive, asking me to find him and save him

Danny's alive, being held somewhere, and he's trying to reach me with his mind

This psychic explanation bothers me mainly because it gives you hope that Danny's still alive

Because Danny really is alive."

Though Tina continued to be buoyed by the unshakable conviction that Danny was alive, fear crept into her again as they drove onto Charleston Boulevard

What's important is that my Danny is alive

Carlton Dombey felt as though he had been swallowed alive and was trapped now in the devil's gut.

Dombey's concern for the kid was greater than his fear of being trapped underground and buried alive, and finally his attack of claustrophobia diminished

They wanted nothing more than to touch and to be touched, to confirm for each other that they were still alive, to feel safe and protected and cherished

Danny called to her again and again, begging her to save him before the roof of his underground prison caved in and buried him alive

"-the better chance we have of getting out alive."

Danny was alive.

A year later, Tina has reason to believe the accident did not occur as reported - that her son is alive, is being held against his will, and is in desperate need of her

I am still alive, thank God, and still writing books

'If this little animal is still alive and well in a month, we can then consider the experiment a success.'

I told them a fly had escaped from the Professor's laboratory and that it must be caught alive

Only the eyes were alive

There were a few people still alive there; most of them were very frightened, and many of them had been burnt

Another cloud came over Ealing, and surrounded a little island of people on Castle Hill, alive but unable to escape.

As we passed other small towns, we found them unaffected by either Heat-Ray or Black Smoke, and there were some people alive, although none could give us news

People who have never seen these things can hardly understand how alive they looked.

He ate more than I did, and did not seem to understand that we had to stay in the house until the Martians had finished their work if we wanted to stay alive

'But it's no good just staying alive

And as I looked at it, and realized that the shadows had been rolled back, and that people might still live in its streets, and that this dear city of mine might be once more alive and powerful again, I felt such emotion that I was very close to tears.

People who were still alive would start to return, and life would come back to the empty streets

I'm surprised that we are still alive to tell the story.

'Say something! Are you dead or alive? Where is your body?'

What use is a sister, if you can't have a talk with her? And what would their parents say if they were alive? They were good church-goers

This was the proof I needed! The death certificate said that Lady Glyde had died on 25 July, and here was a letter from Sir Percival proving that she was still alive on 26 July!

The plan depended on Anne staying alive until the real Lady Glyde left Blackwater Park.

The people who had been at the funeral were all invited to come and see that Laura, Lady Glyde, was in fact alive and well

"You idiot! The governor wants you dead or alive!" says Sergeant Gonzales