EXISTENCE in a Sentence

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393 example sentences for EXISTENCE, such as:

1. Pollution poses a great threat to our existence.
2. She conjectured the existence of a completely new species.
3. Climate changes threaten the continued existence of the species.
4. By its very existence it would start to replace the existing faiths.
5. After his years of adventure, he could not settle down to a humdrum existence.

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 Meanings and Examples of EXISTENCE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
existence
 n.  everything that exists anywhere
 n.  the state or fact of existing
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  By contrast with his own miserable existence, they were well-fed, well-clothed and looked after in sickness and old age.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  At the sound of his voice, Melanie turned and for the first time in her life Scarlett thanked God for the existence of her sister- in-law.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  In all her sheltered life she had never seen evil and could scarcely credit its existence, and when gossip whispered things about Rhett and the girl in Charleston she was shocked and unbelieving.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
4  The mainspring of his existence was taken away when she died and with it had gone his bounding assurance, his impudence and his restless vitality.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
5  Georgia's very existence as a state had been wiped out and it had become, with Florida and Alabama, "Military District Number Three," under the command of a Federal general.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
6  The man who had carried her up the dark stairs was a stranger of whose existence she had not dreamed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
7  Pitty knew very well what she owed Scarlett--almost her very existence.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
8  Lily knew people who "lived like pigs," and their appearance and surroundings justified her mother's repugnance to that form of existence.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
9  The dinginess of her present life threw into enchanting relief the existence to which she felt herself entitled.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
10  Each of them wants a creature of a different race, of Jack's race and mine, with all sorts of intuitions, sensations and perceptions that they don't even guess the existence of.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
11  In truth, however, she was fast wearying of her solitary existence with Mrs. Peniston, and only the excitement of spending her newly-acquired money lightened the dulness of the days.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
12  For a week the prospect had lighted up Miss Stepney's colourless existence; then she had been given to understand that it would be more convenient to have her another day.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
13  The other guests were dispersing to take up the same existence in a different setting: some at Newport, some at Bar Harbour, some in the elaborate rusticity of an Adirondack camp.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
14  In reality, it was impossible for her, while she had the means to pay her way for a week ahead, to lapse into a form of existence like Gerty Farish's.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
15  The daily details of Mrs. Hatch's existence were as strange to Lily as its general tenor.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
Example Sentence: (183 in 13 pages)
16  By its very existence it would start to replace the existing faiths.
17  Given the existence of resource mobility in a single country, the exploitation of comparative advantage is possible.
18  She conjectured the existence of a completely new species.
19  Climate changes threaten the continued existence of the species.
20  One theory about the existence of extraterrestrial life rests on the presence of carbon compounds in meteorites.
21  Pollution poses a great threat to our existence.
22  She believed private medicine was a threat to the existence of the National Health Service.
23  I would remind you of your lady's existence, sir, which the law recognizes, if you do not.
24  A distinct and near voice said, "The marriage cannot go on: I declare the existence of an impediment."
25  After his years of adventure, he could not settle down to a humdrum existence.
26  Now, uttered before a stranger, the accusation cut me to the heart; I dimly perceived that she was already obliterating hope from the new phase of existence which she destined me to enter.
27  Her spirit seemed to hasten to live within a very brief span as much as many live during a protracted existence.
28  Lucy's little brother was the bane of her existence: his attempts to make her life miserable worked so well that she could have poisoned him.
29  A strong argument for the existence of high energy neutrinos from the cosmos is the observation of high energy cosmic rays.
30  I was pleased to have done something; trivial, transitory though the deed was, it was yet an active thing, and I was weary of an existence all passive.