Word Finder - living

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To be alive; to have life.

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He's not expected to live for more than a few months.

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To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside.

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I live at 2a Acacia Avenue.  He lives in LA, but he's staying here over the summer.

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To survive; to persevere; to continue.

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Her memory lives in that song.

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To cope.

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You'll just have to live with it!  I can't live in a world without you.

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To pass life in a specified manner.

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It is difficult to live in poverty.   And they lived happily ever after.

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To spend, as one's life; to pass; to maintain; to continue in, constantly or habitually.

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To live an idle or a useful life.

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To act habitually in conformity with; to practice; to exemplify in one's way of life.

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To outlast danger; to float (said of a ship, boat, etc).

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No ship could live in such a storm.

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(followed by "on" or "upon") To maintain or support one's existence; to provide for oneself; to feed; to subsist.

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It is hard to live on the minimum wage.   They lived on stale bread.

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To make the most of life; to experience a full, rich life.

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I'm sick of spending every day studying at home: I want to go out there and live!

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The state of being alive.

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(plural, with "the", a demonstrative, or a possessive) Those who are alive.

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Respect for the dead does not preclude respect for the living.

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Financial means; a means of maintaining life; livelihood

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What do you do for a living?

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A style of life.

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plain living

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(canon law) A position in a church (usually the Church of England) that has attached to it a source of income; an ecclesiastical benefice.

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Having life.

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In use or existing.

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Hunanese is a living language.

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Of everyday life.

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These living conditions are deplorable.

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True to life.

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This is the living image of Fidel Castro.

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Used as an intensifier.

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He almost beat the living daylights out of me.

He's living his dream.

We're living in the 21st century, Mary.

You're living under the same roof.

Slowly carrying the full cups into the living room, she handed one to Alex.

I've been living in the same apartment with you for two years.

I feel like I just started living again.

It's inevitable that two people living in the same house are going to be at odds sometimes, but from now on I'll never feel completely safe.

What's the point of living to a ripe old age if you can't enjoy yourself?

It was a small island, and there was no one living on it.

When she came through the living room the fire was roaring, but Cade was nowhere in sight.

While Betsy and I shared one bedroom and the LeBlanc's the other, Howie was stuck on the living room sofa.

I love all living things,--I suppose everyone does; but of course I cannot have a menagerie.

Now, if I was trying to hide my identity, the last thing I would want her to do would be to file a police report while she was living under my roof.

The four of us gathered in the Le Blanc living room as soon as greetings were exchanged.

And your old parents, are they still living? he asked.

All I could think about was that I had a living father-in-law.

Moscow seen from the Poklonny Hill lay spaciously spread out with her river, her gardens, and her churches, and she seemed to be living her usual life, her cupolas glittering like stars in the sunlight.

We asked if there was anyone around who might still be living who would remember that far back.

We traipsed up the stairs to the living room, a parade of zombies, each as stunned and speechless as the others.

Any of our infrequent visitors or friends asking about the operation quickly developed a bleary look when we tried to explain what we did for a living.

She is living in Idaho.

The bedroom in the cottage was chilly with the door to the living room closed.

Dusty slammed the door behind him and entered the living room, his sharp gaze taking in every dark corner before he sat.

Are you living with her?

Very kind and loving was St. Francis--kind and loving not only to men but to all living things.

I earn my living by it.

Once Jim extends the invitation, he memorizes all the individuals' names, where they are from, what they do for a living, information about their families, and so forth.

The idea of having to "earn a living" will be completely foreign to us.

There one does not meet the great and the wise face to face; one does not even feel their living touch.

It seemed as if it were some living thing rushing on to some terrible fate.

Let the dead past bury its dead, Act, act in the living present, Heart within and God overhead.

I have seen Penobscot Indians, in this town, living in tents of thin cotton cloth, while the snow was nearly a foot deep around them, and I thought that they would be glad to have it deeper to keep out the wind.

I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten to-day, that I might go a-fishing.

He gets his living by barking trees.

Don't I know that at the rate we are living our means won't last long?

He listened, refraining from a reply, and involuntarily wondered how this old man, living alone in the country for so many years, could know and discuss so minutely and acutely all the recent European military and political events.

Nesvitski looked round and saw, some fifteen paces away but separated by the living mass of moving infantry, Vaska Denisov, red and shaggy, with his cap on the back of his black head and a cloak hanging jauntily over his shoulder.

Denisov and Rostov were living in an earth hut, dug out for them by the soldiers and roofed with branches and turf.

Sometimes he consoled himself with the thought that he was only living this life temporarily; but then he was shocked by the thought of how many, like himself, had entered that life and that club temporarily, with all their teeth and hair, and had only left it when not a single tooth or hair remained.

As there was not a single town or large village in the vicinity of the camp, the immense number of generals and courtiers accompanying the army were living in the best houses of the villages on both sides of the river, over a radius of six miles.

Just at the time Prince Andrew was living unoccupied at Drissa, Shishkov, the Secretary of State and one of the chief representatives of this party, wrote a letter to the Emperor which Arakcheev and Balashev agreed to sign.

We have a house of our own in Moscow, but it's a long way from here, and there's nobody living in it.

He realized that it was the real living Natasha, and he was not surprised but quietly happy.

The old man was living as a convict, submitting as he should and doing no wrong.

She crossed the living room and paused at the door, looking through the peep hole.

The topic on Sesame Street was professions, which was the perfect opportunity for Lisa to ask her what Giddon did to earn a living.

Can't you simply ask his mother what he does for a living?

Yancey was down the trail to whatever he did for a living.

What do they do for a living?

No one ever thought he'd return to the living.