Human children are "expensive" to raise, requiring years of parenting before they can survive on their own.
While humans are omnivores, meaning we can survive on meat and vegetables, a cat is classified as an obligate carnivore, meaning it needs meat to survive (or at least thrive).
A wide shot might best portray one desert, while a close-up of one plant struggling to survive on the side of a dune might best represent another.
The kid needed that big city swagger to survive on mean streets but doesn't just lose it if he moves to a mild-mannered town.
She is in excruciating pain. Her three siblings survive on a bowl of maize-meal porridge a day, with no milk or sugar; no one in the family has ever eaten meat.
And then we knew: we would survive only by laughing.
