How to Use existential in a Sentence

existential

adjective

• There’s just one problem: Serum faces an existential crisis of its own.
  — WIRED, 22 Nov. 2022
• There’s a lot of great and existential unknown, and that can be terrifying.
  — Katie Campione, Deadline, 18 Nov. 2024
• Like the need to fight, Ukrainians say, the act of writing is, today, an existential requirement.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Nov. 2024
• Some on the far left view a second Trump term as an existential crisis and likely will be motivated to take to the streets to protest.
  — Colin P. Clarke, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
• Luckily, there is still one thing capable of bringing comfort to the afflicted and wiping our collective hive-mind of its existential pathos, and that thing is memes.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2022
• Some hope giving Sarna Dharma official status could stem the various existential threats to the faith.
  — Sheikh Saaliq, ajc, 23 Nov. 2022
• Biden reportedly withheld vital armaments at one point while Israel engaged in its existential war.
  — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 8 Nov. 2024
• Musically, the overriding feeling is one of profound existential melancholy, where every thought is drenched in sadness, while some lyrics touch on more mundane concerns.
  — Mark Richardson, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2022
• Singh, 18, said existential issues like climate change — as well as issues like pandemic recovery and the state of democracy — will most affect young people.
  — Nick Perry, ajc, 21 Nov. 2022
• And when the pandemic hit, Michele became especially existential.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Nov. 2022
• The narrator of this dark, existential novel—a startling literary document of urban alienation—is an Uyghur man roaming Ürümqi in search of a room to rent.
  — The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2022
• Yes, there’s the existential dread that comes with choosing a career path in the arts.
  — Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2023
• And the core of the front office doesn’t seem to be grappling with any existential crisis.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
• His Nazis are evil enough, and the movie does acknowledge the existential threat of the Holocaust.
  — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• All in all, that’s just the right existential headspace for a museum trip.
  — Vulture, 4 Dec. 2023
• Looming over all of this is an existential threat to ICWA.
  — Jessica Lussenhop, ProPublica, 15 June 2023
• To me, every story involves travel in, in the existential sense of the word.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Nov. 2023
• The years-long delays are an existential threat to many projects’ chances of getting built.
  — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 16 Sep. 2024
• The specter of that was read by Israel, quite rightly, as an existential threat.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 Feb. 2023
• Yeah, that’s, that would be the next existential crisis.
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 5 May 2023
• In truth, this is hardly an existential matter for the league.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2023
• In the background of this narrative is a more existential crisis of the woodland.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Jan. 2024
• But writers on the picket lines view AI as an existential threat.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 May 2023
• The cast chaotically tries to build a new restaurant—and gets existential about working in the food world.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 22 June 2023
• And the hero who will likely rejoin the Avengers despite his death to fight this massive existential threat.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 7 Dec. 2022
• One reason the risks may be downplayed is that some in the tech industry say fears of existential risks from AI are overblown.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 13 June 2024
• Kindergarten is a bit early to be fed that existential nugget.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
• It may be seen as an existential threat by state parties.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023
• The whole thing has thrown life into an existential tailspin, and turned his status as Ryder’s go-to guy into a thing of the past.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2024
• The fear of catastrophic events and existential threats is not confined to the United States.
  — Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024