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Example sentences for "existing"

Lexicographically close words:
existencia; existent; existential; existere; existeth; exists; exit; exited; exitiabilis; exiting
  1. The chroniclers of those days have described the existing conditions.

  2. The Church of Christ is the sum-total of believers scattered through the whole world and existing in all ages.

  3. It leaves no sense of duty or obligation existing in the constitution of man.

  4. After talking that matter over we got conversing on other subjects, among the rest a family relationship existing between us,--not a very near one, but one which I think I had seen mentioned in genealogical accounts.

  5. Can you suggest what should be done to dispel the existing prejudice?

  6. Is it likely that some other attraction may come into disturb the existing relation?

  7. All our thoughts are now concentrated on the relation existing between Number Five and the Tutor.

  8. The cutters were at first inclined to regard the idea of book-illustrations with suspicion, as likely to interfere with their existing business.

  9. Schreiber enumerates no fewer than thirty-three works as existing in the form of block-books, the number of extant issues and editions of them amounting to over one hundred.

  10. Each of them looked upon his own race as the only people existing upon the earth, or as if they ought to be at enmity with all the rest.

  11. The essential Being, existing by Himself, alone can make.

  12. In February they certainly had not expected to be called to power in the course of the existing Session.

  13. But in the existing state of things he was unwilling to make any reply to any question by which he might seem to bind the government to any opinion.

  14. He placed at my disposal all his existing knowledge concerning the people, and was my intermediary and interpreter throughout all my enquiries.

  15. Croton leaves are also attached to poles after the repairing of a then existing emone.

  16. The village at which the feast is to be held will not necessarily be the largest one of the community, or one in which is a then existing chiefs emone.

  17. The usual occasion for the building of a new emone is an impending big feast, the then existing emone in the village being out of repair, or there being then no true emone in the village.

  18. They take possession of and cultivate the existing gardens as joint property.

  19. As regards the latter there is the word imbele, but this word is used to express the intimate social relationship existing between the members of a clan, and not to express the idea of an actual group of villages.

  20. The affectionate relations formerly existing between the brothers gave place to a coldness and estrangement which lasted until the death of the younger.

  21. In view of the connection now existing between the houses, this duty could not be avoided, though Oswald had postponed its fulfilment to the last moment.

  22. And why have I never heard of this relative, and of the wonderful resemblance existing between him and me?

  23. At the first moment Ruestow was so staggered by this complete ignoring of the existing quarrel that he could not work himself up to anger.

  24. The allusion to a certain connection existing between us becomes intelligible.

  25. The size of the theme, and the scale upon which these scenes are drawn, imply a novel as long as our existing War and Peace; it would all be filled by Kutusov and Napoleon, if their drama were fully treated, leaving no room for another.

  26. The subject is not in Milly herself, but in her effect upon the relation existing between Densher and Kate.

  27. It is hard to think of this lapse and flow, this sequence of figures and scenes, which must be taken in a settled order, one after another, as existing in the condition of an immobile form, like a pile of sculpture.

  28. But if this be a true statement of the nature of the process of Agamogenesis, how can it enable us to comprehend the production of new species from already existing ones?

  29. It is obvious, from these extracts, that Professor Kolliker's hypothesis is based upon the supposed existence of a close analogy between the phenomena of Agamogenesis and the production of new species from pre-existing ones.

  30. The proportion of extinct ordinal types of animals to the existing types, therefore, does not exceed seven per cent--a marvellously small proportion when we consider the vastness of geologic time.

  31. As a broad fact, the further we go back in time the less the buried species are like existing forms; and the further apart the sets of extinct creatures are the less they are like one another.

  32. The youths rushed into the marriage with the daughters, and cast in their lot with all that could overturn the existing order of things, but Miss Woolmer did not believe they had had anything to do with the rick-burning or machine-breaking.

  33. A hundred millions in addition to the existing circulation would at any time create great disturbance in the financial condition of this country.

  34. He did not urge it as a complete remedy for the existing situation (contraction and resumption would alone furnish that), but he said: This is a step in the right direction.

  35. Similarly and in the same year the inhabitants of the neighbourhood of St. Katherinagraben (the present Peter Vischerstrasse) were refused leave to build a bridge over the existing moat.

  36. It is said to be the oldest existing product of the Nuremberg foundries.

  37. According to the earliest existing records it belonged, with the house to the west of it, to a branch of the Haller family, long since extinct.

  38. But it did not accomplish, much, for the bitterness and jealousy existing between the two colonial officers was too strong to be overcome.

  39. His first step was to familiarize himself with the existing machinery of colonial government, which he found to be far from his liking.

  40. But if we have no faith in the permanence of the existing settlement .

  41. The existing representatives of the order had grown up in self-indulgence and social exclusiveness; some excellent, a few vicious, but all isolated from the inferior ranks, and all too old to mend.

  42. Thus, although the mass of the existing voters were content with their privileges, and were not eager to share them, the House of Commons had already committed itself by second readings to the principle of Reform.

  43. These are the three main sources of the existing peerages of England, and in my opinion disgraceful ones.

  44. The bold and generous, weary of the cants, the conventionalisms, and unrealities of modern life, fling themselves into the revolutionary torrent, which threatens the foundations of existing civilisation.

  45. She was the Mary Anne of the universal conspiracy against the existing tyranny which was called order, and a word from her at any moment could kindle the fire into a blaze.

  46. In Egypt he had hurt many susceptibilities, and criticised the existing order of things.

  47. Gordon was so impressed, and it seemed to him that the Irish peasants of a whole province were existing in a state of wretchedness exceeding anything he had seen in either China or the Soudan.

  48. The Resident, according to existing orders, reports to Bombay, and Bombay to that Simla Council, which knows and cares nothing for the question.

  49. In a second memorandum, he not only showed the necessity existing for that larger force, but also how, by administrative alterations in the Transkeian provinces, its cost might be diminished and most conveniently discharged.

  50. Study existing facts, and decide on a definite line of policy, and follow it through.

  51. Let it be further observed, that the existing formalities of social intercourse drive away many who most need its refining influence: and drive them into injurious habits and associations.

  52. And must not the neglect of its embryology lead to a misunderstanding of the principles of its evolution and of its existing organisation?

  53. Well, the effects of parental displeasure on children must similarly vary with the pre-existing relationship.

  54. It is needless to trace out this progress from its first stages, up through the caste divisions of the East and the incorporated guilds of Europe, to the elaborate producing and distributing organisation existing among ourselves.

  55. The idea that the Nebular Hypothesis has been disproved because what were thought to be existing nebulæ have been resolved into clusters of stars is almost beneath notice.

  56. But there is no place existing in the neighbourhood of that name, nor could I find any person at Rio de Janeiro who remembered such a place.

  57. The Prince was also to consult with the Cortes concerning the drawing up of a constitution, and the King promised to adopt such parts of it as might be found applicable to existing circumstances and to the peculiar situation of Brazil.

  58. This cutting efficiency depends upon the thermal stability of the complex hardenites existing in the hardened and tempered steel.

  59. A knowledge of conditions existing today in the manufacture of high-speed steel is essential to steel treaters.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "existing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    existing conditions; existing forms; existing laws; existing species; existing things