Sole-survivor Definition

Sole-survivor Sentence Examples

• But he arrived too late; Selim had already been killed; the unworthy Mustafa was put to death, and Mahmud, the sole survivor of the house of Osman, became sultan.

• During the next year three other members of the party died, leaving Niebuhr the sole survivor.

• The Empire fell to Louis the Pious, sole survivor of his three sons.

• The sole survivor of the team becomes chief suspect in the ensuing international manhunt.

• The sole survivor of the ancient Celtic line was an infant Norwegian princess.