LIVING in a Sentence
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420 example sentences for LIVING, such as:
1. Dying is as natural as living.
2. He earned a precarious living as an artist.
3. The elephant is the largest living land animal.
4. The blue whale is the world's largest living animal.
5. Life was a hopeless affair and certainly not worth living.
2. He earned a precarious living as an artist.
3. The elephant is the largest living land animal.
4. The blue whale is the world's largest living animal.
5. Life was a hopeless affair and certainly not worth living.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of LIVING
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living
a. still in existence
n. the condition of living or the state of being alive
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 He was too young, too strong, too full of the sap of living, to submit so easily to the destruction of his hopes.
2 Then it's little enough you are knowing of any man living, let alone Ashley.
3 His habits of living and his ideas changed, but his manners he would not change, even had he been able to change them.
4 Pork, the only trained house negro on the place, had general supervision over the other servants, but even he had grown slack and careless after several years of exposure to Gerald's happy-go-lucky mode of living.
5 She thought Aunt Pitty the silliest of old ladies and the very idea of living under the same roof with Ashley's wife was abhorrent.
6 Life was a hopeless affair and certainly not worth living.
7 This empire we're living in--the South--the Confederacy--the Cotton Kingdom--it's breaking up right under our feet.
8 He loved me but he was afraid to marry me because--for fear I'd upset his way of thinking and living.
9 It's living on its hump now, like the camel, and even the largest of humps aren't inexhaustible.
10 Scarlett, our Southern way of living is as antiquated as the feudal system of the Middle Ages.
11 If Ashley loved her, he simply couldn't go on living with Melanie.
12 Chloroform was so scarce now it was used only for the worst amputations and opium was a precious thing, used only to ease the dying out of life, not the living out of pain.
13 Many of their number had traded easy living for hard death.
14 They had not seen a living human being or animal since the night before.
15 When the war was over, a plantation could earn an honest living.
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 In education we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.
2 Price changes must not adversely affect the living standards of the people.
3 All living creatures are thought to descend from an organism that came into being three billion years ago.
4 The government is living in a dream world if they think voters will agree to higher taxes.
5 One can habituate oneself to living alone, though rarely with any pleasure.
6 He who has lost his good name is a dead man among the living.
7 The elephant is the largest living land animal.
8 The blue whale is the world's largest living animal.
9 Many people are living in encampments around the city with no electricity or running water.
10 All the art of living lies in the fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
11 He earned a precarious living as an artist.
12 I used to have fantasies about living in Paris with an artist.
13 Dying is as natural as living.
14 The trivial upsets of daily living assume importance but the big tragedies they take in their stride.
15 Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.