Don't all living creatures have certain rights? Water is essential for/to living things. All living things are interdependent. She would never harm another living creature. They are hoping to discover living organisms in the soil. The pyramids are a living monument to the skill of their builders.

The work that you do for a living is the work that you do in order to earn the money that you need. Father never talked about what he did for a living. You use living when you are talking about the quality of people's daily lives. Olivia has always been a model of healthy living.

As a noun, living means the state of being alive or "enough money to live." You might say, for example, that you write poetry for fun, but you work cleaning hotel rooms to earn a living. Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

LIVING is the story of an ordinary man, reduced by years of oppressive office routine to a shadow existence, who at the eleventh hour makes a supreme effort ...

Living, alive, and live refer principally to organisms that are not dead: living plants; the happiest person alive; a live canary. Animate applies to living animal as distinct from living plant life: Something animate was moving inside the box.

Los Angeles Times: Death of Laurel Canyon man who claimed to be a Rothschild was an accident, coroner says

The L.A. County medical examiner’s office said William de Rothschild’s death in November was an accident. Neighbors previously told The Times that the man said he was a member of the Rothschild ...