live through
Endure, survive. This idiom is used both seriously, as in Those who have lived through a depression never forget what it was like, or hyperbolically, as in That speech was endless—I thought I'd never live through it.
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How to use live through in a sentence
One in four of us are forced to live through the violent assaults that these men resent being made cognizant of.
The College Bro’s Burden: Consent and Assault Cast a Shadow on Sexy Times | Amy Zimmerman | August 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThey simply want us to understand what it was like to live through a nuclear explosion so that none of us ever has to do so again.
Truman’s Grandson & Japan’s A-Bomb Survivors: A Story of Reconciliation | Clifton Truman Daniel | August 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“No child should have to live through what Nate lived through,” Terrie said.
Fred Phelps’s Son Is the Subject of a Documentary About His Abusive Childhood and Escaping Westboro Baptist | Caitlin Dickson | June 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt is almost impossible to convey to someone who did not live through that 1963 weekend what it was like.
The JFK Assassination: The Long Weekend That Never Ended | Malcolm Jones | November 1, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST“I never want to live through that particular Groundhog Day again,” Baker told the Senate Judiciary Committee last July.
The Second Oldest Profession is Here to Stay | Christopher Dickey | October 25, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
Men live through more in five minutes on that crest than they do in five years of Bendigo or Ballarat.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonIf I live through this breach of habit, I shall be a white-livered puppy indeed.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) | Robert Louis StevensonI've lived sixty years and never yet met a trouble I couldn't live through.
Patchwork | Anna Balmer MyersYet why should I worry about this when there are people who live through it and like it?
Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska | Charles Warren StoddardHe knew why Rockford had said of this day, "If you can live through it, you will have it made."
--And Devious the Line of Duty | Tom Godwin
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