How do you use the word "exist" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "exist": I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy. I don't exist to you.

Exist Meaning

/ɪɡˈzɪst/

Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

verbto be; have existence; have being or reality

Sentence Examples

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

I don't exist to you.

Does life exist on other planets?

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

live survive subsist

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

According to some philosophers, abstract concepts like justice truly ____ in our minds.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

Some people believe that life may ____ on other planets in distant galaxies.

Word Origin & History

From French exister, from Latin existō, exsistō (“I am, I exist, appear, arise”), from ex (“out”) + sistere (“to set, place”) (related to stare (“to stand, to be stood”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti, from the root *steh₂- (“stand”); see stand. Compare assist, consist, desist, insist, persist, resist. Cognate with Spanish existir, French exister, Italian esistere, German existieren.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Cognitive dissonance exists when a person possesses two cognitions, one of which is contradictory to the other" — 1977, Lawrence S. Wrightsman with Kay Deaux, Social Psychology, page 366:

"Various relationships may exist between character and glyph: […]" — 2012, The Unicode Consortium, The Unicode Standard: Version 6.1 – Core Specification, →ISBN, page 12:

"[…], regardless of whether those characters also existed in other character encoding standards." — 2012, The Unicode Consortium, The Unicode Standard: Version 6.1 – Core Specification, →ISBN, page 19:

"[…], which will be treated either as an update of the existing character encoding or as a completely new character encoding." — 2012, The Unicode Consortium, The Unicode Standard: Version 6.1 – Core Specification, →ISBN, page 55:

"While you see some of our exploration on camera, I also spent many happy hours between shoots with Chris Nix, digging out dozens of wonderful plans, maps and drawings of projects that I never knew existed, and some that never did exist." — 2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, page 50:

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