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UK
/lˈɪvɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈɫɪvɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈɫɪvɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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pertaining to living persons
within living memory -
still in existence
the only surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania
the Wollemi pine found in Australia is a surviving specimen of a conifer thought to have been long extinct and therefore known as a living fossil -
(informal) absolute
beat the living hell out of him
scared the living daylights out of them
she is a living doll -
true to life; lifelike
the living image of her mother -
(used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried
carved into the living stone -
still in active use
a living language
NOUN
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people who are still living
save your pity for the living -
the financial means whereby one lives
he applied to the state for support
he could no longer earn his own livelihood
each child was expected to pay for their keep -
the condition of living or the state of being alive
life depends on many chemical and physical processes
while there's life there's hope -
the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities
he could no longer cope with the complexities of life
How To Use living In A Sentence
- Richardson, are proprietors of shows, and the berouged, bedraggled creatures who exhibit on the platform outside for their living. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
- Pearce , a Zimbabwean architect living in Melbourne, has been inspired by the humble termite.
- This facility is intended to help a few hundred families living in public housing by training them to be grocery store clerks.
- After all this time she was alive, living, breathing, and walking on the earth.
- The results were disastrous, plunging the country into deep depression, with high unemployment, sharply falling living standards and serious political unrest.
- And Johnson has some advice for people aspiring to a comfortable living playing music: ‘I've set it in my mind that I will not jive anybody, and not be jived by anybody.’
- · “Adult family member” is defined as “a person over 21 years of age who is the parent, grandparent, step-parent living in the household, or legal guardian” of the pregnant teen. Archive 2009-07-01
- It's really weighing her down because she's not living up to her ideals any longer.
- There are but three ways of living: by working, by stealing, or by begging.
- One goes like this: He was a hideous giant named Offero, who earned a living carrying travelers across the river.
