ENTITY in a Sentence

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For ENTITY, below is one of 8 sentences:
And as to ideas, entities, abstractions, and transcendentals, I could never drive the least conception into their heads.

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 Meanings and Examples of ENTITY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
entity
 n.  real being; something that exists as a particular and discrete unit; fact of existence
Classic Sentence:
1  I used to fancy that life was a positive and perpetual entity, and that by consuming a multitude of live things, no matter how low in the scale of creation, one might indefinitely prolong life.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
2  And as to ideas, entities, abstractions, and transcendentals, I could never drive the least conception into their heads.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VII.
Example Sentence:
1  The unit has become part of a larger department and no longer exists as a separate entity.
2  Church and empire were fused in a single entity.
3  He regarded the north of the country as a separate cultural entity.
4  The whole country is a single entity.
5  Persons and corporations are equivalent entity under the law.
6  The museums work closely together, but are separate legal entities.