How to Use exist in a Sentence

exist

verb
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  • 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.
  • And Stephen Colbert said, What a joke, this guy doesn't exist.
    — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • The Good News: Don’t be tempted by false promises from those who claim God doesn’t exist.
    — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 10 Nov. 2022
  • In a way, a puffy bag has a lightness that just doesn’t exist with a hardlined briefcase.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Many of the roads in that area have sidewalks that abruptly end, or just don’t exist, Simpson said.
    — oregonlive, 17 Dec. 2022
  • The notion of ‘waste’ did not exist—everything had a use.
    — Mike Werner, Scientific American, 13 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • Caspian seals are the only marine mammal in the Caspian Sea and exist nowhere else in the world.
    — Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • Some credence exists to the idea that his midrange repertoire and defensive prowess could elevate the Warriors into that next tier of playoff threat.
    — Marcus Thompson Ii, The Athletic, 4 Jan. 2025
  • This is only going to continue to get worse with existing road treatments losing effectiveness.
    — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 4 Jan. 2025

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