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n. the only person to survive an incident in which many people died
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A sole survivor is a person who is the only survivor of a deadly incident.
Sole Survivor may refer to:
Sole Survivor is a novel by the best-selling author Dean Koontz, published in 1997. It is about a woman named Rose, who is being pursued by a company called Teknologik.
"Sole Survivor" is a song and a single made by the German power metal band Helloween taken from the album Master of the Rings. On "Closer to Home", the lead vocals are sung by Roland Grapow. The song has been covered by the Swedish power metal band Dragonland on their third album 'Starfall'.
This single was released only in Japan.
Sole Survivor is an American 1983 horror film written and directed by Thom Eberhardt, in his feature film debut.
Sole Survivor is an ABC Movie of the Week starring Richard Basehart, William Shatner, and Vince Edwards. The film, written by Hollywood screenwriter Guerdon Trueblood and directed by Paul Stanley, was first aired on television in 1970. It is loosely based on the 1958 discovery of the Lady Be Good in the Libyan desert. The B-24 Liberator had disappeared without trace following its first and only combat mission in World War II in 1943.
"Sole Survivor" is a song by progressive rock band Asia. Written by Geoffrey Downes and John Wetton, it is the third track and fourth single from the band's 1982 eponymous debut. It was Asia's third single for the U.S Mainstream Rock Charts that reached the Top Ten. The single also peaked at #75 in Germany and #91 in the UK.
The song was covered by Japanese power metal band Galneryus for their 2008 cover album, Voices from the Past II. It was also used in some of the foreign versions of the 1982 Japanese anime Future War 198X.
In 2000, the song was referenced in satirical newspaper The Onion with a brief article titled "Sole Survivor Of Air Crash Has Asia's 'Sole Survivor' Stuck In Head."
Sole Survivor also known as Dean Koontz's Sole Survivor is a Canadian science fiction Thriller film/mini-series adaptation of Dean Koontz's novel of the same name, made and released in 2000 and directed by Mikael Salomon.
Sole Survivor is a 2013 CNN Films documentary film by director Ky Dickens.
Usage examples of "sole survivor".
The daughter of reclusive wizards who lived in a remote mountain village, she was the sole survivor of an attack by Crinti raiders.
Over the telephone, this one top agent is stressing about what if I'm not the sole survivor.
But my brain, tenacious of its reason, refused to lend itself to such imaginations--and though I endeavoured to play the antic to myself, I knew that I, the offspring of man, during long years one among many--now remained sole survivor of my species.
Trask went to talk to the sole survivor, and Nathan took Andrei and Kirk forward with him into what had been the battle-zone.
What with the plaster and assorted bruises and a half-closed left eye I must have looked like the sole survivor from an express train crash, but at least I wasn't bad enough to send young children screaming for their mothers.
The writer mentions three sources for his account: two unnamed GIs who he claims were in your platoon and whose anonymity he is protecting and one Eurasian nun, identified only as Sister Teresa, who he says is the sole survivor of the massacre' Sloan looked at Tyson.
Pfc Hernando Beltran, a hefty Cuban-American and the sole survivor of second squad.