How to Use exist in a Sentence
exist
verb- It's the largest galaxy known to exist.
- Does life exist on Mars?
- Racism still exists in our society.
- We shouldn't ignore the problems that exist in our own community.
- She believes that ghosts really do exist.
- The Internet didn't exist then.
- The organization may soon cease to exist if more funding isn't provided.
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The White House has warned that its existing funding has run out.
— David Sivak, Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2024 -
To be this strong, to be able to still piss off complete strangers just by existing.
— Lydia Price, Peoplemag, 22 May 2024 -
There exists gluten-free bread that does not fall apart, and that tastes just as good as normal bread.
— Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic, 31 May 2023 -
Wednesday, Wolfe took umbrage with the fact that the rumors even exist.
— Jon Paul Hoornstra, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024 -
That tragedy, though, exists behind a haze of folklore.
— Tom Roland, Billboard, 16 Sep. 2023 -
Adult and youth leagues exist all over the country, with hundreds of teams in some metro areas.
— Danish Bajwa, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 June 2024 -
In a way, a puffy bag has a lightness that just doesn’t exist with a hardlined briefcase.
— Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 29 Mar. 2023 -
Once a student said that hard deadlines don’t exist in the real world.
— Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2023 -
Part of the challenge facing the US is that the chargers that do exist aren’t reliable.
— WIRED, 12 Jan. 2023 -
Didn’t know a singer (Rob Halford) with that intense [of a] range existed.
— Liza Lentini, Spin, 18 Aug. 2023 -
The site is host to more than 800 million videos and is as close to a living archive as exists on the internet.
— Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2023 -
The romance between Rustin and the preacher exists in the shadows — under the dim lights of a nearby bar or behind the blinds in Rustin’s home.
— Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2023 -
But challenges to a full restoration of travel still exist.
— Laura He, CNN, 27 Feb. 2024 -
In our first press tour, Richard Kind didn’t even do any press because no one even knew Bing Bong existed.
— Jenelle Riley, Variety, 19 Oct. 2024 -
And so those 192 lasers pointed at this one tiny sphere produced the heat and pressure conditions that exist in the sun.
— Quartz Staff, Quartz, 3 Mar. 2023 -
The only reason that any of these stories exist is because my dreams came true.
— Jenelle Riley, Variety, 29 Nov. 2023 -
But concerns existed: slow feet, can’t jump, out of shape and overweight.
— Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 13 June 2023 -
However, the same safety net does not exist for cannabis.
— Kaitlin Sullivan, Health, 16 Sep. 2023 -
Some of these still exist, presiding over the Pont d’Iéna tunnel or blending into the stone of the fountain at Châtelet.
— Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023 -
There can be no peace in the Middle East if Hamas exists, since Hamas exists for the sole purpose of preventing peace.
— Noah Rothman, National Review, 17 Nov. 2023 -
True love does exist and some things do last forever and that's real.
— Alexandra Schonfeld, Peoplemag, 15 Feb. 2024 -
And look, if Daniel didn’t exist Henry would have made an excellent Bond.
— Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 June 2023 -
With whatever time constraint exists, using 90% of it to ask and test the right questions yields the best answers.
— Expert Panel®, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
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