How to Use sustenance in a Sentence
sustenance
noun
- The village depends on the sea for sustenance.
- Tree bark provides deer with sustenance in periods of drought.
- She draws spiritual sustenance from daily church attendance.
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The birds get sustenance, and the berries get to disperse their seeds.
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Jennifer Ouellette,
Ars Technica,
19 Aug. 2022
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Of course, food is used for more than sustenance at the zoo.
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Jason Bittel,
Smithsonian,
11 Sep. 2017
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The bar has a 20-foot screen and dozens more TVs across the space, plus food trucks for sustenance.
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Emma Balter,
Chron,
29 Nov. 2022
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If this class of drugs rewires our brains and guts to think of food as just sustenance, the world will be so sad.
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Laura Reiley,
Washington Post,
2 Oct. 2023
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The evacuees placed in them might even turn to them for sustenance.
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Michelle Ye Hee Lee,
Washington Post,
9 Dec. 2022
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The lack of food would drive up prices for what sustenance remains.
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Alex Ward,
Vox,
19 Oct. 2018
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The storm killed many deer and fruit trees that the people rely on for sustenance.
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Science News Staff,
Science | AAAS,
12 Sep. 2017
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The gift of hearty sustenance is ideal for the winter months ahead.
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Naveen Kumar,
CNN Underscored,
7 Dec. 2020
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Support the show and buy your sustenance from the vendors on-site, folks.
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Kirby Adams,
The Courier-Journal,
3 July 2019
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The building in large part serves to provide sustenance to those in need.
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Peter Krouse,
cleveland,
27 Feb. 2021
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But the sea is seen less as a threat than as a source of comfort, amusement and sustenance.
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J.s. Marcus,
WSJ,
11 Oct. 2017
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Shouldn’t food just be a source of sustenance and pleasure?
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Michelle Stacey,
Allure,
8 Aug. 2019
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Tune in with a glass of wine on May 6th, just in time for a little Mother’s Day soul sustenance.
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Emerald Elitou,
Essence,
2 May 2022
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To observe so soon into her life story that there is no sustenance in the past is to give the past an edge.
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Hazlitt,
2 Oct. 2024
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That, the film suggests, keeps us alive in ways that go beyond sustenance.
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David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
9 Feb. 2024
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The same fortitude that worked for her on the farm becomes her sustenance away from it.
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Peter Rainer,
The Christian Science Monitor,
18 May 2018
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Music has been like food for me, like bread, like sustenance.
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Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com,
al,
30 Aug. 2022
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There’s a lot of protein for sustenance, and plenty of sugar for a quick rush.
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Washington Post,
7 Apr. 2022
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But that’s the point, really, to find sustenance in what has always been true.
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Yohanca Delgado,
Time,
22 Jan. 2022
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The plant is the only host for their eggs and sole sustenance for the caterpillars, which feed on milky secretions from the leaves.
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Calvin Woodward,
Fox News,
31 July 2018
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Corn, beans and squash — along with wild game, strawberries and maple sap — were the main sustenance of the Mohawk people.
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San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Nov. 2020
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Food, at its essence, is sustenance; that much is simple.
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Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
8 July 2020
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After adult salmon have spawned and died off in the fall, the Yurok people rely on the long, ugly fish for sustenance in the winter months.
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oregonlive,
17 June 2023
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Food is much more than sustenance that keeps people alive.
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Sam Boyer,
cleveland,
17 Mar. 2022
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The author sought sustenance in the language of music instead of words.
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Michele Filgate,
Los Angeles Times,
6 June 2023
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In recent decades, as the lake shrank and grew saltier than the ocean, nearly all the fish have died and the migratory birds that relied on them for sustenance have become scarce.
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Rebecca Plevin,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Dec. 2024
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Living in poverty, the same Dalits often stripped down and ate those deceased animals for sustenance.
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Omkar Khandekar,
NPR,
15 Dec. 2024
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