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.