You can't be alive in two times at once!

But once alive, the thing would not die.

More likely, these readings indicate the presence of something that was once alive.

They always ask about things that were once alive and are not anymore.

Wood comes from trees, and they were once alive.

I do not want to use your science simply to make a museum, Renie, a place for city-folk to see what was once alive.

"I don't know how you can eat a blamed thing without causing something that was once alive to die," said Alvin.

I'd been alive once, in the normal sense of the word.

That this place was once alive and flowing with people?

But isn't it strange to think of all the dead people in there who were once alive like you and me.