live-forever

[ liv-fer-ev-er ]

noun
  1. a widely cultivated succulent plant, Sedum telephium, of the stonecrop family, having fleshy, coarsely toothed leaves and flat clusters of purplish flowers.

Origin of live-forever

1
First recorded in 1590–1600

Words Nearby live-forever

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How to use live-forever in a sentence

  • For their own treasure-chest was now all but empty, and one could not live forever upon blueberries and fish.

    Love's Pilgrimage | Upton Sinclair
  • He chewed the gum to make his breath sweet and drank a decoction of the root to make him live forever.

    The Treatment of Hay Fever | George Frederick Laidlaw
  • Would you have a Nation live forever that is content to be governed by Bruhls?

  • The Ames house lay comfortably on the desert as if it had grown up out of the sand and proposed to live forever.

    Still Jim | Honor Willsie Morrow
  • And he stop, stop so long here by river while that little bird build her nest in his side, he turn to stone and live forever.

    Still Jim | Honor Willsie Morrow