| He grew up watching his parents, grandparents and neighbors communing with the land as if it were a living thing. |
| This is clear evidence that viruses are unlike any known living thing and are much more like inanimate than animate matter. |
| These may relate to the object's origins, as when we claim to perceive some living thing, or to its physical constitution. |
| The school was grossly irresponsible for letting the students get that close to a wild, living thing. |
| Since it's the first living thing he's seen in ages, he pursues it and only manages to frighten it off. |
| Any living thing which brought life and movement to stir the sullen stillness of it all would be silenced. |
