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How to use existent in a sentence

13 example sentences · adjective, noun

Existent means existing; having life or being, current; occurring now. Example: “Now, what I propose is that we immediately proceed to layerize the existent trade routes in depth.”

More sentences with existent

  • Now, what I propose is that we immediately proceed to layerize the existent trade routes in depth.2008, Christopher Anvil, Eric Flint, War Games. From the entry layerize
  • This question inquires into the first cause and highest existent ground of beings.1936, Martin Heidegger, Nietzsche. From the entry theion
  • On the other hand, abstract categories are less truly existent than certain other objects.1932, Paul Faulkner Tjensvold, God Known by Intuition, A.B. University of California, page 88. From the entry hyperexistent
  • He who knows Aditi, who rises with Prana (the Life Principle), existent in all the Devas.1919, Swami Paramananda, transl., The Upanishads. From the entry prana
  • Meinongianism (named after Alexius Meinong) is, roughly, the view that there are not only existent but also nonexistent objects.2024, Maria E. Reicher, Meinongianism, Cambridge University Press, page 1. From the entry meinongianism
  • This is the wordplayer's ad hoc approach: recycle the existent.2008 February 21, W. D. Redfern, French Laughter: Literary Humour from Diderot to Tournier, Oxford University Press, →ISBN. From the entry palincestuous
  • It seems I will be command lining it for a bit and my documentation is all sparse (non existent) for commands?2003 November 14, Nobody, “um...help?”, in alt.os.linux.mandrake (Usenet), archived from the original on 09 Dec 2025. From the entry command line
  • As a matter of legal principle, the State should report whether all the necessary conditions for the invocation of the right of self-defense were existent.2008, Jan Kittrich, The Right of Individual Self-Defense in Public International Law, →ISBN. From the entry invocation
  • The connotation associated with "nomenclate" is one of an existent system in which one assigns some pre-determinable, precise name to a given form.2004, Seymour B. Elk, A New Unifying Biparametric Nomenclature that Spans all of Chemistry: The science of incorporating daily over 2,000…. From the entry nomenclate
  • Even though, uh, Vyacheslav Gladkov, the Governor of Belgorod, said that the situation remains difficult, so it shows that the Ukrainian pressure is still existent in this area.2025 March 19th, Torsten Heinrich, “Ukraine Invades Russia AGAIN! Trump Announces Partial Cease Fire! Ukraine SITREP”, in Military &…. From the entry Demidovka
  • Whereas, on the “multiverse” interpretation, Modal Realism acknowledges physical possibilities only--and worse, (assuming either axiom S5 or axiom B) each possibilium ends up as a necessary physical existent.2011, T Parent, Modal Realism and the Meaning of 'Exist'. From the entry possibilium
  • Any existent language system is first and foremost a heteroglot entity, stratified according to the actually existent social diversity of speech types (dialects, jargons, generic languages and so on).1990, Peter Goodrich, Legal Discourse, →ISBN, page 140. From the entry heteroglot
  • An organ useful to our ancestors may in its present action be disjustive, yet vestiges of it are existent, which may be aroused by a superabundant supply of energy.1915, Mind and Body - Volume 21, page 411. From the entry disjustive

Meaning of existent

  1. adjective Existing; having life or being, current; occurring now.
  2. noun A being or entity that exists independently.

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Questions about existent in a sentence

How do you use existent in a sentence?
Existent is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “Now, what I propose is that we immediately proceed to layerize the existent trade routes in depth.”
What is a short sentence with existent?
“This is the wordplayer's ad hoc approach: recycle the existent.”
What does existent mean?
Existent means existing; having life or being, current; occurring now.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: existent (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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