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