How to Use exist in a Sentence

exist

verb

• It's the largest galaxy known to exist.
• Does life exist on Mars?
• Racism still exists in our society.
• We shouldn't ignore the problems that exist in our own community.
• She believes that ghosts really do exist.
• The Internet didn't exist then.
• The organization may soon cease to exist if more funding isn't provided.
• The idea that these awards would exist is fine—valid, even.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 11 Aug. 2022
• Bits and pieces of this vision exist already in the form of video games.
  — Jonathan Lee, Washington Post, 28 July 2022
• And Stephen Colbert said, What a joke, this guy doesn't exist.
  — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2022
• The White House has warned that its existing funding has run out.
  — David Sivak, Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2024
• To be this strong, to be able to still piss off complete strangers just by existing.
  — Lydia Price, Peoplemag, 22 May 2024
• There exists gluten-free bread that does not fall apart, and that tastes just as good as normal bread.
  — Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic, 31 May 2023
• But while the nine rings of the Nazgul don't exist yet, other rings are in the process of being created.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 14 Oct. 2022
• Wednesday, Wolfe took umbrage with the fact that the rumors even exist.
  — Jon Paul Hoornstra, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
• That tragedy, though, exists behind a haze of folklore.
  — Tom Roland, Billboard, 16 Sep. 2023
• Adult and youth leagues exist all over the country, with hundreds of teams in some metro areas.
  — Danish Bajwa, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 June 2024
• The Good News: Don’t be tempted by false promises from those who claim God doesn’t exist.
  — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 10 Nov. 2022
• In a way, a puffy bag has a lightness that just doesn’t exist with a hardlined briefcase.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 29 Mar. 2023
• The biggest brands in the world today often didn’t exist a couple of decades ago.
  — Paul Klein, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
• Many of the roads in that area have sidewalks that abruptly end, or just don’t exist, Simpson said.
  — oregonlive, 17 Dec. 2022
• The notion of ‘waste’ did not exist—everything had a use.
  — Mike Werner, Scientific American, 13 Dec. 2022
• Once a student said that hard deadlines don’t exist in the real world.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2023
• Yes, the show exists within the rigid and exacting world of dance, but there is an overflow of jokes about food and weight.
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2025
• Part of the challenge facing the US is that the chargers that do exist aren’t reliable.
  — WIRED, 12 Jan. 2023
• Caspian seals are the only marine mammal in the Caspian Sea and exist nowhere else in the world.
  — Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2022
• Didn’t know a singer (Rob Halford) with that intense [of a] range existed.
  — Liza Lentini, Spin, 18 Aug. 2023
• The site is host to more than 800 million videos and is as close to a living archive as exists on the internet.
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2023
• The romance between Rustin and the preacher exists in the shadows — under the dim lights of a nearby bar or behind the blinds in Rustin’s home.
  — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2023
• So what do all those existing and potentially new users do now as regards tracking?
  — Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025