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How to use the word alive in a Sentence?

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What if we pour all our resources into building a smart city, only to realize that we have forgotten to cultivate smart minds? Our obsession with smartphones and mindless entertainment has led us astray, preventing us from truly experiencing the beauty of the world and connecting with others. Let us not trade genuine human connections for a virtual reality, for it is through true smiles and heartfelt encounters that our cities truly come alive.

Yvonne Padmos

added by Freelancer
2 months ago

Happiness, I decided years ago, is unattainable and I don’t wish to seek it through the usual methods. Peace is a reflection of our souls, leaving me a non-entity. I cry because people want to feel and I join them in their fears and private agonies and I wish for death and pray for life and hope to God that God even gives a shit and before I die and receive my judgment I just want to help 1 person FEEL, to know what it is to be alive and to ease their suffering as only a tormented soul can.

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
10 months ago

Be brave, be kind, be honest, be true— remember these things are alive within you.

Laura Jaworski

added by anonymous
10 months ago

He and his family are just happy that he’s alive after being shot in the head.

Susan Pfannmuller/AP Crump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

(It was) a management decision. I wasn’t allowed to let anyone out alive, because my command was to kill anything in my way.

Azamat Uldarov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’d love to keep the show’s legacy alive in the best way that I can.

Wallace Phillips

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Part of me sees it as a new beginning, i’d love to keep the show’s legacy alive in the best way that I can.

Wallace Phillips

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In Mexico, they fed their enemies alive to tigers.

Anne Milgram

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They didn’t deserve that. None of us deserved it. But we’re alive – we have a lot of recovering to do.

Washington McGee

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What do you do with a movement of 2.2 million? we’re keeping it alive.

Doug Mastriano

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was a really difficult decision, because I knew that once I became a Chinese national, I would lose my chance to be called up for the Peru senior team, but I felt it was a good option. I think if my grandfather was alive, he’d have been overjoyed.

Roberto Siucho

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Not as long as I’m alive. Boy, we’re going to keep fighting this one.

Austin Steele/CNN Dimon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Everything happened in like five seconds. It came – boom, you could hear a lot of commotion and stuff. … I go outside, and it is crazy. People had blood all over their faces. … I’m just thankful that I’m alive.

Stephen Swofford/Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/AP William Williams

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It feels great [ to be out ], you only appreciate freedom once you’ve been incarcerated, let me tell you. It’s a different lifestyle, it’s a different world. I’ve been out now for over three months and I ’m happy to be here alive and speaking to you.

Boris Becker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

One of the kids that I had in the unit, he was shot in the shoulder. The student that I was helping up from the side of the unit, he had bullet fragments on his thigh, and then we had another student with blown off fingers. And she was just in and out. We were trying to get her oxygen and trying to keep her alive. And I realized those were my son’s classmates and my son was not coming out.

Pete Luna/Uvalde Leader-News Children

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Would you be willing to buy drugs off the street? Would you be willing to go to an addiction clinic and try to get pain treatment there? What are you willing to do to stay alive? that is what it comes down to.

Axis Advisors

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As painful as this has been, had someone else done this before us, our son would still be alive, we want to be that person that saves lives later on.

Brandon Caserta

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This journey has empowered us to advocate for the lives of other preterm infants like Adiah and Adrial, who would not be alive today if the boundaries of viability had not been challenged by their health care team.

Shakina Rajendram

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This happened in plain daylight. We don’t know if she is dead or alive. The last picture we saw, she was walking alive, she is a mother and we need her to come back here for her kids.

Washington McGee aunt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The ruling is another heavy blow to the claim that the 1972 Equal Rights Amendment remains alive, over the past 41 years, ERA-lives claims have been put before 29 federal judges, and have yet to win a single vote from a single judge.

Douglas Johnson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Today you are you, that's truer than true. No one alive is youer than you.

Dr Seuss

added by Thepunkpoet70
1 year ago

I was half alive. Any sense of being a lovable or worthy person had gone completely.

Berliner Studio/BEImages/Shutterstock A fuller interview

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Tanner Horner’s indictment is the beginning of a long road through the justice system. I appreciate everyone’s continued support and for keeping Athena’s name and memory alive. Please take a moment to hug your children and loved ones. No one is promised another day.

Maitlyn Gandy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I feel like I want to not remember these scenes and not have to go teach that class, but there is another part of me that feels a great need, a strong need to see my students again … to see that they are alive, I need to see their faces.

Meridith Edwards/CNN MSU professor

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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