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adjective

surviving

still in existence

In a sentence

Six example sentences with surviving, each labelled with its topic.

  • The only surviving copy of the charter sits in a Bruges archive, its seal cracked but its text legible.

    History

  • Three surviving cast iron warehouses line the dock, and developers have spent a decade arguing about what to do with them.

    Architecture

  • Fewer than sixty surviving individuals remain on the island, all descended from a single pair released in the seventies.

    Environment

  • The only surviving manuscript of the poem is a copy made two centuries after the poet lived.

    Literature

  • The surviving score is missing its final page, so every performance ends with a guess at the last four bars.

    Music

  • Only nine surviving paintings are firmly attributed to the master, and museums argue about a tenth every few years.

    Art

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