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living

A living thing is a person, animal or plant that is not dead—it is still able to function and grow. Living things grow and make more living things like themselves.

living

A way of earning money. What do you do for a living?

living

(= life) the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities he could no longer cope with the complexities of life pertaining to living persons within living memory people who are still living save your pity for the living true to life; lifelike the living image of her mother (informal) absolute she is a living doll scared the living daylights out of them beat the living hell out of him (= life) the condition of living or the state of being alive while there's life there's hope life depends on many chemical and physical processes (= support, keep, livelihood) the financial means whereby one lives each child was expected to pay for their keep he applied to the state for support he could no longer earn his own livelihood (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried carved into the living stone still in active use a living language (= surviving) still in existence the Wollemi pine found in Australia is a surviving specimen of a conifer thought to have been long extinct and therefore known as a living fossil the only surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania

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Simple sentences

She is used to living alone.
She is living in the village.
He left the bedroom and entered the living room.
My living room has wide windows.
Tom is used to living alone.
Tom has been living abroad for a very long time.
A language is a living system that evolves over time.
I'm used to living alone.
I'm not living with him anymore.
We were in the living room when we heard the gunshot.
I've gotten used to living alone.
I don't think I ever knew what Tom did for a living.
I've been living in a cave.
Tom isn't used to living in the city.
I think my living with you has influenced your way of living.
I came to Tokyo three years ago and have been living here ever since.
You will soon get accustomed to living here.
Living near the school, I usually walk there.
Living in the town is quite different from living in the country.
Living abroad is the best way to learn a foreign language.
No matter how busy he was while living abroad, he never failed to write home to his parents at least once a week.
We've been living here since July.
He makes his living by singing.
Our living room is sunny.
I'm living in the city.
No living thing could live without air.
The living room adjoins the dining room.
Outside the school, she saw people with no homes living in cardboard boxes.
English, as you know, is very much a living language.
I began living by myself.
If the sun were to stop shining, all living things would die.

Movie subtitles

People live in poverty, But I hope she's living well!
Guys, we wanted to go on a mission so we could spend two years of our life living someplace exciting and helping people, right?
We're finding micro-organisms not only living in these hot springs but flourishing.
He plays game for living.
We. will send you back to the world of the living.
For the person who was alive during the death and was dead during the life, allow the living body and dead heart!
Since you made it a big deal like going down to the world of the living, I thought you had some amazlingly thought out plan.
What's good if people keep on living?
People seem to be living here though..
The one who has a living body and a dead heart.
She has been living in this world, borrowing a human body.
I didn't like living in Heaven.
On the plus side, we've totally been living In the bamboo forest, so at least It's a step up for someone, right?
If Musashi-sama is willing to die then I have no intention of living either.
My father, rest his soul, used to say a neighborhood is like an organism, a living thing, always changing, always needing something.
If you could see yourself right now, living in this place.
Living the dream.
There's gotta be something worth living for?
In the way that all living things must change and evolve, Meyerism itself cannot remain static.
It's designed to activate once it enters the epidermis of a living body.
Not that it all makes sense. It's mostly superstitious nonsense, but we are living beings.
That's why I'm here, to ensure they continue living free. and that's what I intend to do!
Thought I was gonna end up living out there with the hill people until this Teddy bear of a man fixed me up at the local garage.
During the reign of king Johan III a bitterly cold winter swept over Sweden, the likes of which had never been seen in living memory.
One has to make a living.
Yes, we're way past tents, we're living in bungalows now.
Living with your folks.
We make a living off them.
We are used to living under the boot of bullies.
The top of season one, Allison, you know, she's living a 17-year-old girl's life.
Are you living here again?
Because the future has to do with the living.
It's worth to try at least once. Since you made it a big deal like going down to the world of the living, I thought you had some amazlingly thought out plan.
It's strange.. People seem to be living here though.. Hey, Storage Yard (Ghost)!
I didn't like living in Heaven. Since I can't have love in Heaven I told him to return back as humans because I found out the way to go back, but you refused.
Musashi-sama. aren't you? If Musashi-sama is willing to die then I have no intention of living either.
Matahachi is living happily.
He found out about their affair, beat the living crap out of Abelard.
Let's tell each other one thing that we've never told another living soul.
I am just trying to snap you back into reality, because now that Josh and Valencia are living together, you are not gonna have any more alone time with him.

News and current affairs

While the magnitudes involved are huge, they must be attained if an extended period of low growth, high unemployment, and declining living standards among the world's poorest is to be avoided.
The second problem involves relocating Afghan refugees now living in Pakistan and Iran, as well as those displaced within Afghanistan.
That would widen the wage distribution, create jobs, and maintain the living standard of the poor.
One may ask whether transparency and the requirement that local landholders consent to a sale is enough to protect people living in poverty.
But the evictions took place in 2001, and the villagers are still living in extreme poverty.
Why should those who work for a living be subject to higher tax rates than those who reap their livelihood from speculation (often at the expense of others)?
There were 177 altruistic donations by living donors in the United States in 2013 and 118 in the United Kingdom in the year to April 2014.
In any case, in a world with a billion people living in extreme poverty, it would not be difficult for an altruist to appreciate that there are many ways of doing more good than renovating a concert hall for well-off music lovers.
Sadly, the United States is not living up to its obligations.
It is not that raising poor people's standard of living above bare subsistence produces Malthusian catastrophe, or that taxes and withdrawal of welfare benefits make people work, at the margin, for nothing.
It is a form of Cold War nostalgia - a dream of returning to a time when much of the globe was recovering from a ruinous world war and living in fear of communism.
The US had not revised its policy, even with an African immigrant's son living in the White House.
Skeptics see an empire living on borrowed money and borrowed time.
After all, the rich are living better than ever, while the rest of American society is suffering.
The majority of citizens have experienced a decline in living standards in the last year, and there remains a perception that people have more opportunities outside their own countries.
Each of those splendid performers is living with HIV.
Across Africa, political leaders, long dismissive of rural concerns, have awakened to the importance of agriculture and the role that educated people, even those living in major cities, can play in farming.
Nevertheless, most people living in Africa's cities have access to land in the countryside, which is why Liberia's government rightly highlights the potential for farm expansion.
The Korean Peninsula, however, remains divided along ideological lines, and the two Koreas co-exist as living remnants of the Cold War.
Of course, the so-called civilized world never managed to create a living utopia.
Our hearts are with the rebelling youngsters and their legitimate yearning for freedom and basic rights to express themselves, choose their leaders, and earn their own living.
We are sincerely interested in the establishment of a Palestinian state living peacefully side-by-side with Israel, the democratic state of the Jewish people.
If you are not living in mortal fear of rape and beatings at home, you can organize your community to dig a new well.
Put bluntly, Americans were living beyond their means for too long.
Economists, as opposed to those who make their living gambling on stocks, make no claim to being able to predict when the day of reckoning will come, much less identifying the event that will bring down the house of cards.
Smug self-satisfaction makes us resistant to embracing the changes necessary to maintain our standard and quality of living.

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