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UK
/lˈɪvɪŋ/
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[ 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
- This facility is intended to help a few hundred families living in public housing by training them to be grocery store clerks.
- Pearce , a Zimbabwean architect living in Melbourne, has been inspired by the humble termite.
- · “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
- Inside, Ms. Savage accented the home's 16-foot coved ceilings—original from 1926—and espresso-colored floors with earth-toned couches and classic pieces, using a long wooden bench as a living room coffee table. A Gossip Girl's Main Stage
- Having spent years working and living in London and across Eastern Europe, the solitude and beauty of the landscape offered a powerful draw.
- Gil probably should have thought about that and realized that a street address with the word rattlesnake in it was most likely a bad omen—that things probably wouldn’t turn out well if they tried living there. Fatal Error
- After all this time she was alive, living, breathing, and walking on the earth.
- A cenobite is usually a monk in a monastery, as opposed to an anchorite, who is a monk living alone (also called an ‘eremite’ or ‘hermit’).
- We're living through a deeply contradictory time when black folks (and what's left of the unions) are the Dems only truly reliable voting block, and yet every other manifesto for Democratic revitalization is some kind of attenuated, okie-doke Souljah-moment retread. Gary Dauphin: ATT(5)-1=CBC(3)+CHC(1)
