How to Use survivable in a Sentence

survivable

adjective
Definition of survivablenext
Synonyms for survivablenext
  • The Army… is struggling with how to make the vehicle light and survivable at the same time.
    — Noah Shachtman, WIRED, 15 Nov. 2007
  • Police found the man with survivable injuries at the home.
    — Brieanna J Frank, azcentral, 21 May 2018
  • All three versions of the fighter are as survivable as planned.
    — Loren Thompson, Forbes, 25 June 2021
  • Butler said evidence showed the wreck was survivable and the Hills died because they were crushed by the truck’s roof.
    — Alia Malik, ajc, 19 Aug. 2022
  • The virus is here to stay; the goal continues to be to make that reality more survivable.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Bochsler said one down year would be survivable for the event, but two could be devastating.
    — oregonlive, 17 June 2020
  • But over the next five to ten years the era of personalised medicine could see enormous progress in making cancer survivable.
    — Aaron Mak, Slate Magazine, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Flynn also thinks the F-35 is the most survivable aircraft for the dangerous skies over Ukraine.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Set against this rise is the fact that, in rich countries, cancer is becoming more survivable.
    — The Economist, 16 Sep. 2017
  • Next go the acts of necessity that make stays survivable.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2022
  • If the Democrats can remain unified, the exercise will be painful but survivable, which once again raised the spectre of Sinema.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2022
  • For Logan, it’s about whether his current mess is survivable.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2021
  • Four interceptions in the first half won’t be survivable again.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2023
  • If not, a holdout should be survivable — Bolts were 4-0 without him last season.
    — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 23 July 2019
  • The driver was wearing his lap and shoulder belt and his air bag deployed, but the NTSB determined the front-end crash was not survivable from the driver’s seat.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Everything in Trump's first 116 days in office -- and there's been a lot of it -- was survivable in a political sense.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 16 May 2017
  • The Air Force describes the B-21 as a long-range, highly survivable, penetrating strike stealth bomber.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 5 Dec. 2022
  • But life on the village-turned-island is barely survivable.
    — Zia Ur-Rehman Kiana Hayeri, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
  • One of her wounds was not survivable, according to police.
    — Hannah Fry, latimes.com, 24 June 2019
  • The good news is that many types of cancer are now survivable for years if not decades, the quality of life for survivors has improved markedly and there are ways to improve the odds.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2024
  • And the ailments that patients arrive with, such as neck and lower-back pain, are universal and survivable.
    — Lauren Larson, Men's Health, 25 July 2023
  • The also figured out that smaller holes were more survivable than larger holes.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 14 June 2018
  • The reports findings included: The crash was not survivable for the limousine driver.
    — David Robinson, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2019
  • The same complaints about the Browns defense will take us through this week, mistakes that are familiar by now, and mistakes that are often survivable.
    — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 15 Dec. 2020
  • History shows that abrupt changes at the top of a network or studio are disruptive but survivable.
    — Yvonne Villarreal, latimes.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • That means over eighty percent of key combat aircraft are not survivable against the advanced threats posed by China or Russia.
    — Dave Deptula, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
  • In some parts of the world, geoengineering took a place that would have been too hot to allow mosquito survival and brought it back into a survivable range.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 20 Apr. 2022
  • The aircraft is not survivable above the high intensity battlefields it was designed to fight over, and the war in Ukraine is making that crystal clear.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The door pictured was closed in the area where the person was found and contributed to creating a space that was survivable long enough for firefighters to make entry and rescue.
    — oregonlive.com, 13 June 2019
  • Haldane and Spurway reached a pressure level equal to 90 feet beneath the waves, as well as a scorching heat somewhere in the survivable triple digits Fahrenheit.
    — Rachel Lance, WIRED, 16 Apr. 2024

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'survivable.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: