Example sentences for: existential

How can you use “existential” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It is airing existential TV commercials, with teens philosophizing about the "moodiness" of ketchup that refuses to leave the bottle; forthcoming ads will teach the under-12 set that ketchup can be "fun" (a campaign sure to draw the appreciation of moms and day-care workers everywhere).

  • True, they tend to have the emotional autonomy of 8-year-olds, but they're less of a labor to "read" than ordinary mortals: It's their business--you might say their existential orientation--to communicate their thoughts and feelings in an engaging fashion every millisecond . I mention this because the first thing that struck me about the much-hyped satirical comedy EdTV , which purports to show the effect of TV cameras brought into the homes of real people, is that almost no one on-screen seems ever to have met a real (i.e.

  • Undergirding Lilla's hesitations about the spread of democracy into various corners of life are, of course, two Europeans--the two he credits with first descrying the worrisome "existential character of the American democratic faith," the Frenchman Alexis De Toqueville and the Englishwoman Frances Trollope.

  • In “Camino de Guanajuato,” these existential words open the song:

  • What I wanted, however, was a larger perspective, something more insightful than the one-thing-after-another existential whimsy that made Bottle Rocket such a trial.


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