Example Sentences

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Police did not offer information on whether there had been existing investigations into those cases.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2023

These extraordinary gifts came just in time, Zollar says, because her company had been existing “hand to mouth.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 11, 2021

And Herman Weckler, up-from-the-ranks vice president & general manager of Chrysler & De Soto Corp., testified that labor espionage had been existing for years.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since the troops had left I had been existing on canned salmon and sardines.

From The Great White Tribe in Filipinia by Gilbert, Paul T. (Paul Thomas)

For months past--in fact ever since the child was born--she had been existing without sufficient food.

From The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Tressell, Robert