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.
  • The idea that these awards would exist is fine—valid, even.
    — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The bedroom above the garage didn’t exist, nor did the timber barn.
    — Kathy Orton, Washington Post, 8 July 2022
  • Bits and pieces of this vision exist already in the form of video games.
    — Jonathan Lee, Washington Post, 28 July 2022
  • 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
  • But while the nine rings of the Nazgul don't exist yet, other rings are in the process of being created.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 14 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • The biggest brands in the world today often didn’t exist a couple of decades ago.
    — Paul Klein, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • Yes, the show exists within the rigid and exacting world of dance, but there is an overflow of jokes about food and weight.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • Losing the mines means removing the very reason the towns exist.
    — Nabih Bulosstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2022
  • But digital tools now exist to fast-track progress and reduce the heavy lifting.
    — London School Of Economics, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
  • In his plan, Voight suggested something along these lines too: a 10 to 20 percent federal rebate that would stack with any existing state credits.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 17 May 2025

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