living thing
Example Sentences
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But the monarchy is about continuity; it is an accretion of what has come before as well as a living thing that responds to the present.
From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026
“We’re monitoring in real time any real living thing coming in contact with that building,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026
“And it’s sad that people just don’t care about another living thing because they think it doesn’t belong there.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025
Further, the disposal of pans poses significant dangers to the environment and, by extension, every living thing in it.
From Salon • Dec. 9, 2024
From the time he’d grown up big enough to get out of the cabin, he’d made a practice of trying to catch and keep every living thing that ran, flew, jumped, or crawled.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
