noun

definition

One who survives, especially one who survives a traumatic experience.

example

From this moment on, I choose to live not as a victim, but as a survivor.

definition

One who knew a specific decedent.

example

She was from a large family and had many friends, so the funeral was crowded with mourning survivors.

Examples of survivors in a Sentence

It's a good thing for any survivors out there.

Eventually a Biscayan named Sebastian del Cano, sailing home by way of the Cape of Good Hope, reached San Lucar in command of the " Victoria " on the 6th of September 1522, with eighteen survivors; this one ship of the squadron which sailed on the quest succeeded in accomplishing the first circumnavigation of the globe.

Survivors of de Soto's expedition, however, descended the Mississippi to its mouth in 1542.

Even if the increasing weakness of the Egyptian Empire did not invite a repetition of the incursion, it could have allowed the survivors to settle down, and about a century later one of the peoples formerly closely allied with the Purasati is found strongly entrenched at Dor, and together with the more northerly port of Byblos treats with scant respect the traditional suzerainty of Egypt.'

In 371 he led the relief force which was sent to aid the survivors of the battle of Leuctra.

Arimondi, collecting the survivors of the Toselli column, retreated to Makall and Adigrat.

After a desperate melee of some minutes, the rally was sounded, and the survivors of the charge, breaking their way a second time through the French infantry, eventually reached the shelter of their own lines, having lost rather more than half their numbers, but having saved the situation momentarily for their own army.

If a spinal anesthetic is used, polio survivors cannot be expected to get up and walk after surgery.

Among the survivors was the girl Nongkwase; her father perished.

The mortality rate of the Chindits was spectacular, but that bred its own unique esprit de corps among the survivors.

At Knowlton in Dorset there is a line of yews, survivors from an early hedgerow, with an average girth of 25 feet.

Being able to talk to other polio survivors is the best medicine I have found for PPS, it really lightens the load.

They immediately went to the site and spent the next literally several days hoping to find survivors.

But in the case of Early Christian sarcophagi the iconographic connections of portraits to either visual context or survivors receive short shrift.

Survivors and their dependents can benefit from these programs.

They got as far as the Sankuru district, where the survivors settled and married native women.

Meagre as is the information preserved of the arts, thoughts, and customs of these survivors from the lower Stone Age, it is of value as furnishing even a temporary and tentative means of working out the development of culture on a basis not of conjecture but of fact.

Four pashas were among the slain; over a hundred banners fell into the Moldavian hands; and only a few survivors succeeded in reaching the Danube.

An excellent edition of the works of Saint-Simon and Enfantin was published by the survivors of the sect (47 vols., Paris, 1865-1878).

Even if they exacted the full rigour of service from the survivors, they could not get their broad demesne lands properly tilled.

After Towton peace prevailed south of the Tyne and east of the Severn, for it was only in Northumberland and in Wales that the survivors of the Lancastrian faction succeeded Civil war in keeping the war alive.

The survivors of that time were capable of taking arms for any cause that offered a chance of unreasonable profit, and no ones loyalty could be trusted.

In 1510 Martin Fernandez de Enciso, following Alonso de Ojeda to the New World, took the survivors of Ojeda's colony of Nueva Andalucia (near the present Cartagena and east of Panama) and founded on the Tuira river the colony of Santa Maria la Antigua del Darien (commonly called Darien).

The survivors were unable to walk, but crawled out of the woods and glens.

Richard Talbot, one of the few survivors of Drogheda, governed the king's Irish policy, while the lord-lieutenant was kept in the dark.

The steady diminution of his crew by sickness, and the worn-out state of his remaining consorts, compelled him at last to collect all the survivors in the "Centurion."

There is, however, some evidence that Isoetes, which in several respects agrees more nearly with the Lepidodendreae, may actually represent their last degenerate survivors (see Pleuromeia, in § II., MEsozoic).

It is clear that Bennettites differed in many essential respects from the few modern survivors of the Cycadophyta.

At least there was one good man outside the Peak, despite the constant stream of bad news about how crazy all the survivors were.

Fan out and see what else we can salvage from here or if there are any survivors we can talk to about these funky uniforms.

Artistic endeavors have also been a way for many trauma survivors to express inner feelings in a positive, creative way.

As in anyone who receives a general anesthetic, polio survivors can develop nausea and vomit.

Why would breast cancer survivors don feather boas, blow bubbles and dance around the room to their favorite music laughing as they go?

Surely our own survivors are equally deserving of such support?

There are also digitized audio on-line testimonies of Holocaust survivors and camp liberators.

Meet the man who may have made a breakthrough in predicting earthquakes, and hear compelling stories from survivors and rescuers.

The Marines shot them at close range and hurled grenades into the kitchen and bathroom, survivors and neighbors said later.

Even the survivors would be severely incapacitated, many for a long time, some permanently.

Even apparently healthy survivors may suffer from immune dysfunction, or kidney or brain malformations, which can contribute to death later.

It has seen a new wave of legal actions against perpetrators and on behalf of survivors.

I know a lot of survivors and I don't know any who are so pained that they can't function.

Survivors of outbreaks can exhibit fibrous replacement of the exocrine pancreas.

Soon after, however, the survivors found they had such great advantages that they became highly successful and eventually highly populous.

The earthquake destroyed thousands of people's lives but I was struck by the incredible resilience of the survivors I met.

They were forever seared in the minds of the survivors.

Many survivors have set up makeshift shelters on top of the debris that used to be their homes.

A Cardiff trawler skipper later lost his ticket for a number of years for failing to stop and pick up the survivors.

Soul survivors The soul survivors The Soul Survivors have become one of the most sought after party bands on the scene.

For the survivors trapped aft of the torpedo stowage compartment the situation was hopeless.

Provide training for health professionals working with torture survivors.

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