7 sentences with 'survivors'
Example sentences and phrases with the word survivors and other words derived from it.
• « To 42-year-old Jerry Laverty, who had been a combat photographer for the U.S. Navy, it seemed as if he was among the survivors of a fierce battle. »
• « Suzanne Kelly made a sudden resolution that her current year's students were to find out what had become of the other survivors. »
• « The survivors of the episode now being celebrated ate a few oranges, symbolic of the four that had been rationed among them on that occasion. »
• « In fact, there were five other survivors, only two of whom were seriously injured; of these, one suffered a permanent brain injury. »
• « The Black Death continued to spread further and festered until 1351, by which time it had killed so many people that the survivors had developed a resistance to it. »
• « Entire cultures were destroyed, empires fell, and the survivors found themselves at the mercy of conquistadors whose highest priorities were the extraction of mineral wealth and the exploitation of labour. »
• « While initial attempts at colonisation failed or struggled to survive (for example, almost all of the original settlers at Jamestown, Virginia, were dead by the time more arrived in 1610), the survivors discovered that they could grow at least one cash crop that would enrich them and tempt other Europeans to immigrate: tobacco. »