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LIVE IN
I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Live in the house where one works
Example:
our babysitter lives in, as it is too far to commute for her
Synonyms:
live in; sleep in
Classified under:
Hypernyms (to "live in" is one way to...):
board (provide food and lodging (for))
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Antonym:
live out (work in a house where one does not live)
Context examples:
The stars live in dense clumps of gas called giant molecular clouds.
(Stars Found Far from Galaxy Center, JPL/NASA)
Less well known is that S. aureus often can live in the nose or gut without causing any harm.
(Study finds probiotic Bacillus eliminates Staphylococcus bacteria, National Institutes of Health)
He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance, but that is all.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Th17 cells normally live in so-called barrier sites—such as the mouth, skin, and digestive tract—where germs make first contact with the body.
(Researchers identify immune culprits linked to inflammation and bone loss in gum disease, National Institutes of Health)
The microbiome is the collection of bacteria and other microorganisms that live in or on the body.
(Study finds gut microbiome can control antitumor immune function in liver, National Institutes of Health)
The microbes that live in subsurface realms such as seafloor trenches play a significant role in storing the carbon.
(Major deep carbon sink linked to microbes at volcanic island chains, National Science Foundation)
And she was so pitiless that she took poor Rapunzel into a desert where she had to live in great grief and misery.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
She wanted to live in the cool, trendy neighborhood, which is in high demand—the East Village.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
I'm glad I live in it then.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
If you live in his home and know him, you know, perhaps, what his power with a weak, vain girl might be.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
