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.
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Will my job even exist in five years?
—Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026
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The choice to step back still exists.
—Bruce Sibley, Time, 29 May 2026
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But now, the job no longer exists.
—Steve Banker, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026
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Your website will still exist a decade from now.
—Fayez Mohamood, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2025
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No such script exists for a friendship breakup.
—Literary Hub, 11 Mar. 2026
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Of course those film stocks don’t exist anymore.
—Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2025
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Not that the other worlds don’t exist.
—Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2025
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It wasn’t even supposed to still exist.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 1 May 2026
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Watts knows the recipe for success exists.
—Chris Hays, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2026
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These rules exist for a reason.
—Robert Scott, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
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But then existing in this world?
—Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 3 Mar. 2026
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Ford might not exist without it.
—Keith Laing, USA Today, 23 May 2026
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Why does this column even exist?
—Jayson Stark, New York Times, 5 June 2026
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None of this exists without them.
—Vin Diesel, Variety, 16 May 2026
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These things can exist in models.
—Kristen Parisi, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
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The sale was a clear signal that a market for the artist exists.
—Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 15 Apr. 2026
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The Whigs would agree — if any of them still existed.
—Stu Strumwasser, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2026
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Every word exists in service to the words around it.
—Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
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Bits and pieces of this vision exist already in the form of video games.
—Jonathan Lee, Washington Post, 28 July 2022
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The first three could have existed in the real world.
—Brody Miller, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2026
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That world doesn’t exist anymore.
—Brent Saunders, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2026
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That question didn’t exist yet.
—Lindsey Harn, Fortune, 6 June 2026
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Kickstarter is great for projects that already exist or one-off books.
—Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 10 June 2022
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