Sentence examples for a thing that exists from inspiring English sources

In the Principles, Descartes defined "substance" as a thing that exists such that its existence does not depend on any other thing.

Emmerdale is still a thing that exists.

It doesn't feel like a thing that exists in the world to me.

And now, because education is a thing that exists on the internet, Google has found a ruthless way to monetise it.

Insofar as the sun possesses formal reality, it is a thing that exists independently of the mind.

One view is that spacetime is a substance, a thing that exists independently of the processes occurring within spacetime.

When a parent looks upon his child as an extension of himself--a thing that exists only to satisfy his needs--a terrible abuse of power is taking place.

[C2.] L. Dennis Kozlowski, the former chief executive of Tyco International, and its finance chief, Mark H. Swartz, treated the company as "a thing that existed to serve them," a prosecutor told jurors in closing arguments.

We crushed the coke into still finer powder and spread it, thin and beautiful, on the glass coffee table, and by the time we were all packed into two cabs any memory that I had been about to read a poem or that poetry was a thing that existed had vanished.

Not only did the NHS object to its logo being used, politicians who had stood in photocalls in front of this bus with that pledge on the side denied that that had ever been a thing that existed and what were we all talking about?

"I am ashamed now to say it but I passed my eyes over her as a cannibal views his dinner, my gaze sharp enough to pick the meat off her bones," she wrote, adding: "For a moment she had turned back from a figurehead into the young woman she was, before monarchy froze her and made her a thing, a thing which only had meaning when it was exposed, a thing that existed only to be looked at.