exist

[ɪɡˈzɪst]

Definition:
1. To be real; to be present in a place or situation.
2. To live, especially in a difficult situation or with very little money.

Use 'exist' in a sentence:

1. We plan to widen the scope of our existing activities by offering more language courses.
2. New laws will soon replace existing legislation.
3. The charity exists to support victims of crime.
4. The existing law is not entirely/ wholly satisfactory.
5. The problem only exists in your head, Jane.
6. This suggestion did not fit very happily with our existing plans.
7. We cannot exist without air, food, and water.
8. To live, you have to exist at first.
9. More and more women professors thought that sexual discrimination did exist in the university.
10. The town of Rudbar had ceased to exist, with only skeletons of buildings remaining.
11. "People with poor motives will always exist," he says.
12. How can this be the case that similar artistic styles exist in such distant locations?
13. Some people exist on melons or coconuts for weeks at a time.
14. Considerable modification of the existing system is needed.
15. We do not exist in the world. The world exists in us.
16. It would have been warm enough on these planets for liquid water to exist.
17. The unit has become part of a larger department and no longer exists as a separate entity.
18. We existed on a diet of rice.
19. Strip off all the existing paint.
20. Similar patterns exist throughout the U.S.
21. Back then, however, the AU did not exist.
22. Natural resources are things that exist in nature and can be used by people.
23. Agricultural societies cannot exist without staple crops.
24. No one could deny that problems of crime in the inner city exist.
25. That leads us to find patterns and connections both where they really exist and where they exist only in our minds.
26. He threatened to expose the racism that existed within the police force.
27. If society is to exist as a unity, its members must have shared values.
28. Like an ostrich, she thought that if she couldn't see me, then I don't exist.
29. On his retirement the post will cease to exist.
30. This is a side of Alan that I never knew existed.
31. Does life exist on Mars?
32. The plan, as yet, only exists in embryonic form.
33. It is probable that many undiagnosed children exist in the education system with "invisible" disabilities.
34. Racism exists at all levels of society.
35. They can exist in two forms, which are mirror images of each other like hands.
36. Nature can only let us exist, while arts create mankind.
37. Existing shareholders will have pre-emption rights.
38. Very few subscription libraries exist today.
39. Most scientists believe that the moon's poles are where water is most likely to exist.
40. Does life exist on other planets?
41. He thought that if he couldn't see something, it didn't exist.
42. I'm not talking about quality here, but simply the fact that they exist.
43. The new system interfaces with existing telephone equipment.
44. What else could it exist for?
45. A culture of failure exists in some schools.
46. New information is matched against existing data in the computer.
47. A pro tem committee was formed from existing members.
48. These programs can be integrated with your existing software.
49. The magic cure for inflation does not exist.
50. The new design will eventually replace all existing models.
51. They can't exist on the money he's earning.
52. First aid requires rapid assessment of victims to decide whether life-threatening conditions exist.
53. The idea already existed in embryo in his earlier novels.
54. Many possible orderings may exist.
55. The new degree and the existing certificate courses would run in parallel.
56. For all practical purposes the treaty has already ceased to exist.