living thing
Example Sentences
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Also: It is “a living thing, and like the adoption of a new word, phrase or idiom, each innovation made money more useful; the more useful it was, the more used it became.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
"I suppose I convinced myself that it was all right for the time being because his marriage was not a living thing."
From BBC • Oct. 3, 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
DNA and Cloning Every living thing has DNA – a special code that tells it how to grow.
From NewsForKids.net • Nov. 13, 2024
As far as he really knew, he himself was the only, lonely, living thing that existed, and in his coma of coldness, he was not so sure of that.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
