How to Use existential in a Sentence

existential

adjective

• And the threat has become existential for a wider range of jobs.
  — Jake Angelo, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2026
• That is not just a threat, but an existential threat to us and our allies.
  — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2026
• The next two are more existential.
  — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2025
• Lurie stages all of this with fraught existential command.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 24 June 2026
• This fight, lawyers say, is existential.
  — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2026
• This is an existential issue for the league.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 3 Nov. 2025
• But the existential fear in The Birds is way worse.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2025
• There is a more existential danger here, too.
  — Hannah Jocelyn, New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2026
• But experts warn that the toxic runoff from the mines could pose an existential threat.
  — Anton L. Delgado, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2026
• The pivot points that felt like existential crises.
  — Brendan Keegan, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2026
• Yes, there’s the existential dread that comes with choosing a career path in the arts.
  — Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2023
• For cities like Norfolk, the next big storm is an existential threat.
  — Jim Morrison, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2022
• All in all, that’s just the right existential headspace for a museum trip.
  — Vulture, 4 Dec. 2023
• How could the Ukrainian armed forces fare now, in the face of such an existential threat?
  — Thomas Mutch, Popular Mechanics, 24 Feb. 2022
• But also the pesky ones, like your terror and your existential dread.
  — Catherine Mevs, New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2026
• Few cities are as deeply tied to existential risks as Chicago.
  — Daniel Holz, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026
• The years-long delays are an existential threat to many projects’ chances of getting built.
  — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 16 Sep. 2024
• Kindergarten is a bit early to be fed that existential nugget.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
• In truth, this is hardly an existential matter for the league.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2023
• For many of them, sea-level rise poses an existential threat.
  — Lauren Gifford, Space.com, 25 Aug. 2025
• But this is Putin’s existential war.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2025
• This is not just a more existential thought than is usually expressed on a talk show.
  — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2022
• The stakes were presented as not just high but existential.
  — Zadie Smith, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
• An even more existential fight is brewing.
  — Sophia Bollag, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Apr. 2026
• They’re sometimes framed as an existential threat to the other teams.
  — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2025
• No, that would be an existential loss and weird performance.
  — Eva Wiseman, Vogue, 7 May 2026
• And the core of the front office doesn’t seem to be grappling with any existential crisis.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
• As with anything, there are existential threats.
  — Megan Feringa, New York Times, 1 June 2026
• The Celestials are an existential threat, but there might be a way to counter them.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 12 Nov. 2021
• The idea that Iran is an existential threat may be completely wrong.
  — Mohammad Javad Zarif, Foreign Affairs, 22 Dec. 2025