[ US /ɪɡˈzɪst/ ]
[ UK /ɛɡzˈɪst/ ]
VERB
  1. support oneself
    he could barely exist on such a low wage
    Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?
    Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day
  2. have an existence, be extant
    Is there a God?
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How To Use exist In A Sentence

  • This does not exclude the existence of pockets of the urban population with unrealized homosexual desires.
  • Rules exist to be violated, so that the ‘bastard’ may be more violently characterized and the audience engaged in revengeful fury.
  • I'd live the transient and ephemeral existence of a backpacker for a week, an existence of freedom and simple pleasures.
  • This proposed procurement is a continuation of an existing contractual agreement for the developed prototype NASA Student Ambassadors Virtual Community (NSAVC) web site. ... Curious Virtual Community Procurement - NASA Watch
  • A few years ago it was suggested that auroral phenomena could exist on Mars too.
  • In wartime, heroes come into being in times of crisis; in peacetime, they come into existence by doing trifles in everyday life.
  • And its world was a narrow swamp, a grey, nubiferous environment, where it lived its contented, active, idyllic, almost mindless existence. The Voyage of the Space Beagle
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  • This platform of existence, many millions of years old, continues today with the gorillas and chimpanzees. Times, Sunday Times
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