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alive

(= live) possessing life the happiest person alive the nerve is alive doctors are working hard to keep him alive burned alive a live canary (often followed by 'with') full of life and spirit she was wonderfully alive for her age a face alive with mischief (followed by 'to' or 'of') aware of is alive to the moods of others (= live) capable of erupting a live volcano the volcano is very much alive (= animated) having life or vigor or spirit an animated and expressive face animated conversation became very animated when he heard the good news (= alert, awake) mentally perceptive and responsive an alert mind alert to the problems alive to what is going on awake to the dangers of her situation was now awake to the reality of his predicament (= active) in operation keep hope alive the tradition was still alive an active tradition

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Simple sentences

For some reason I feel more alive at night.
Is the fish still alive?
Is the snake alive or dead?
His old cat is still alive.
He could still be alive somewhere.
If my mother had still been alive, she would have helped me at that time.
She was buried alive.
Is Tom alive?
I'm happy to be alive.
He is probably still alive.
We're still alive.
They're still alive.
I am alive even though I am not giving any sign of life.
Elephants are the largest land animals alive today.
A family should not spend all of its money to keep someone alive on a machine.
I'm alive all right, but don't ask where or how.
We found him alive.
I tried everything to keep him alive.
The doctors thought he was dead, but today he is still alive and healthy, and has a job and a family.
We've got to catch the lion alive.
If it were not for air and water, nothing alive would exist.
Most of the dogs are alive.
Almost all of the dogs are alive.
One of the twins is alive, but the other is dead.
To my surprise, she was alive.
The church we went past crumbled five minutes afterwards due to a huge earthquake and more than a 100 churchgoers were buried alive.
Keep the fire alive.
If my mother were still alive, she would have helped me.
He would still be alive had he refused to go to the battlefield then.

Movie subtitles

If we want to stay alive, our village needs to lay low and not attract any attention.
Millions are alive right now, and that fact alone tells scientists a lot as they comb the cosmos for alien life.
For the person who was alive during the death and was dead during the life, allow the living body and dead heart!
We need the shirt that the deceased person wore when she was alive.
Even if you feel like you'll be so bitterly sad to part, but that it's human nature for that sorrow to keep you alive.
That's what becomes love, memories and sentimental longing. That one of those things alone are the strengths that keep you alive.
Take the women alive!
We are all just trying to get out alive.
I know he's still alive.
We want to talk to the last person who saw him alive, and we want to know why he ended up dead in a refrigerator.
Look, when we were doing the restaurant, when we were coming up with plans for Thirio, you were so amped, man. You were so alive.
But that was the last place she was seen alive, right? So whoever murdered her used Declan's death as the perfect way to hide her body.
The last time I saw Declan, he was alive and well and tending the garden.
Well, I may have been, but, as I said, the last time I saw Declan he was alive tending the flowers with Janelle Peacocke.
You may see me as alive, but I am dead.
You were so alive.
I'm sure, mostly, they're just happy that you're alive.
Jet Link, are you alive?
They drove stakes through our hearts, beheaded us, burned us alive, and fired silver bullets at us.
The Professor is still alive?
If at all possible, I want you to bring them back alive.
I think she is still alive.
If you do not sign, you will be burned alive.
Maybe he's alive!
Alive, alive!
ALIVE!
But we're both alive yet, and you can make my last few hours in Vienna very pleasant.
And the reason why I came to see ghosts when I came back alive after wandering around as a spirit, was because it was what I had promised.
If he was alive, I think tomorrow's sun will be different.
You are still alive.
You are still alive!
COOPER: After finding out that Cam was still alive, I wanted him and his stuff out of our apartment.
It's so alive.
The eyes are alive.
They're alive after all.
If you hand her over, you might be able to go home alive.
Get in there and keep him alive, Doc!
And then-- then I came outside. and it felt-- it felt so good to be alive that I started in to walk fast.
I tried to keep you alive.
Up at the front you're alive or you're dead, and that's all!

News and current affairs

No doubt, millions of people at the end of the war were too hungry and exhausted to do anything much beyond staying alive.
At the same time, it pointed to the need to increase food production to feed the extra two billion people expected to be alive in 2050, and suggested that more investment in agriculture in developing countries is required to improve productivity.
During World War II, European monarchs kept a sense of hope and unity alive among their subjects under Nazi occupation.
The implication of these findings is that early on (perhaps since dinosaurs ruled the earth, or even before) evolution hit upon a way of wiring the brain to produce responses likely to keep an organism alive in dangerous situations.
As a result, they grow food the traditional way, often earning little or nothing from their harvest, because it's not even enough to keep their families alive.
Probably no other political figure alive today met and endured as many world leaders as Arafat.
The dividing lines may be less sharp than they were with apartheid, but our continued high level of greenhouse-gas emissions protects the interests of one group of humans - mainly affluent people who are alive today - at the cost of others.
The residual proportional component of the electoral system has kept many political parties alive.
Ferguson's argument amounts to that of a brutal disciplinarian who claims vindication for his methods by pointing out that the victim is still alive.
Inefficient and loss-making state-owned enterprises (SOEs) remain the primary beneficiaries of official economic policy, kept alive on a drip-feed of government subsidies and cheap loans from state-owned banks.
The streets seemed alive with people.
Such people are dying not because early death is inevitable, but because they cannot afford the medicines to keep themselves alive.
Europe and Japan have also avoided the financial contributions to AIDS control that could keep millions of HIV-infected Africans alive.
The threat remains alive, and it is important to remember that people in democracies want both liberty and security.
All were alive and healthy for one reason only: the Joint Clinical Research Center in Kampala, and the drugs that it provides them.
His embrace of the right to his truth, which is the artist's task, is nonetheless remarkable, given that he is working in an environment in which part of the creative process involves trying to stay alive.
US exceptionalism remains alive and well, of course.
Issing, the ECB's chief economist in its formative years, knows more about how a monetary union operates in practice than any man alive.
Any adult who was alive in the US during these three decades realizes that this number grossly understates the gains of the typical household.
One reason for this outpouring of enthusiasm is clear: the Shalit family's remarkable ability to keep alive interest in his cause throughout the five years since his abduction.
CAMBRIDGE - For most people, there has never been a better time to be alive than now.
Appeasement, it seems, is alive and well in countries that should know better.
Recently, the discovery of mustard gas canisters left behind by Japanese forces during World War II has also served to keep memories of the Imperial Japanese Army's wartime conduct alive among older Chinese.
As a result of the slave-labor brick plants, as well as reports of an eight-year-old child worker being buried alive and migrant workers killed, Hongdong's name has become infamous.
Fortunately, they were not beaten or buried alive for not showing up for their shift, as has happened to others.
You can be sure that, this time next year, they will be paying homage to their ancestors, as they tramp over the ground where child slaves were buried alive for daring to proclaim their humanity.

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