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Live out   /laɪv aʊt/   Listen
Live out

verb
1.
Live out one's life; live to the end.
2.
Work in a house where one does not live.  Synonym: sleep out.






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"Live out" Quotes from Famous Books



... to teach its girls to be dolls and drudges. The prevailing current of instruction and influence is deplorably low. I feel confident that the best part of society is longing for something better. To obtain it, each one has but to live out, and express to the world his ...
— Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women • George Sumner Weaver

... heedlessly. And then, taking up a thought of her own suddenly,—"Miss Craydocke! Don't you think people almost always live out their names? There's Sin Scherman; there'll always be a little bit of mischief and original naughtiness in her,—with the harm taken out of it; and there's Rosamond Holabird,—they couldn't have called her anything better, if they'd waited ...
— Real Folks • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney

... all his life was to be spent in the crowded city, for his parents bought a country home on Long Island overlooking Oyster Bay. Theodore went there in the summer and had a chance to live out of doors. He tramped the woods, knew all the birds, hunted coon, gathered walnuts, and fished in pools for minnows. But even with all these outdoor pastimes he was far from well. Often he had choking spells of asthma at night. Then his ...
— Modern Americans - A Biographical School Reader for the Upper Grades • Chester Sanford

... scarcely comprehensible. A man seems confessed a weakling in a monastery; he was born to act, to live out a life of work; he is evading a man's destiny in his cell. But what man's strength, blended with pathetic weakness, is implied by a woman's choice of the convent life! A man may have any number of motives for burying himself in a monastery; for him it is the leap over the precipice. ...
— The Thirteen • Honore de Balzac

... simple, happy people; they live out of doors most of the time, and they love the sunshine, the rain, and the wind. They have plenty to eat,—the pounded corn, milk and honey, and scarlet beans, and the hunters bring meat, and soon it will be time for the wild water-birds to come flocking down the river,—white ...
— The Seven Little Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball - That Floats in the Air • Jane Andrews


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