EXIST in a Sentence

Learn EXIST from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
393 example sentences for EXIST, such as:
1. You can't exist by hope alone.
2. They seem to exist on a different spiritual plane.
3. That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.
4. If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
5. Among a people general corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of EXIST
exist
 v.  have an existence, be extant
 v.  support oneself
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Some may say that characters of his type have become extinct, that Nozdrevs no longer exist.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
2  Certain persons in the world exist, not as personalities in themselves, but as spots or specks on the personalities of others.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
3  By this time Chichikov felt that he had seen enough; wherefore he returned to the Colonel, and informed him that the Office for the Reception of Reports and Returns had ceased to exist.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
4  Yes, for every man there exist certain things which, instantly that they are said, seem to touch him more closely, more intimately, than anything has done before.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
5  Why, if you don't help us in our appeal to you, then we simply don't know how we are to exist.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT IV
6  If you don't crown my steadfast love, then I am not fit to exist in this world.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT IV
7  And that stupid set without whom my wife cannot exist, and those women.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII
8  The universal experience of ages, showing that children do grow imperceptibly from the cradle to manhood, did not exist for the countess.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
9  But even it does not exist, there is nothing but quiet and peace.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVI
10  Headquarters are so full of Germans that a Russian cannot exist and there is no sense in anything.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER I
11  Everything not connected with the execution of the prince's orders did not interest and did not even exist for Alpatych.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV
12  But to make an attack the wish to do so is not sufficient, there must also be a possibility of doing it, and that possibility did not exist.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER II
13  Moscow is taken and after that, with no further battles, it is not Russia that ceases to exist, but the French army of six hundred thousand, and then Napoleonic France itself.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER I
14  After the French victory at Borodino there was no general engagement nor any that were at all serious, yet the French army ceased to exist.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER I
15  It could not exist because it was senseless and unattainable.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER XIX
Example Sentence: (183 in 13 pages)
1  There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
2  You can't exist by hope alone.
3  Among a people general corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
4  The emotional differences exist, at least, between the genders.
5  It is the final proof of God's omnipltence that he need not exist in order to save us.
6  Yesterday is dead, forget it; tomorrow does not exist, don't worry; today is here, use it.
7  Bonds do not exist for those to whom naught is dear or not dear.
8  If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
9  Botanists are not in complete accord about how many species exist.
10  It's in the underdeveloped eastern region of the country that the biggest problems exist.
11  Culture will specify the relations that exist within the organisation and define what is to count as legitimate or illegitimate behaviour.
12  First it will examine the consultative arrangements which exist between a number of key government agencies and representative bodies.
13  Spinnys examine the job opportunities that actually exist and the benefits they have to offer.
14  That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.
15  They seem to exist on a different spiritual plane.