sustenance
IPA: sˈʌstʌnʌns
noun
- Something that provides support or nourishment.
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Examples of "sustenance" in Sentences
- It is necessary for the sustenance of the universe.
- Vitamin is one of the sustenances for human beings.
- He was forced to work for the sustenance of the house.
- Cigarettes seem the sustenance of the artistic temperament.
- Hours later, the crew finds Frankenstein, and in need of sustenance.
- The forest growth provides enough sustenance to the migratory birds.
- Obama, however, seems to have drawn a kind of sustenance from the dinner.
- It offers sustenance to thousands of people living in and around the lake.
- The prospect of cannibalism as a means of sustenance is always disturbing.
- After 1951, growers had to pay for the transport and sustenance of braceros.
- The religions no longer provide sustenance and nourishment to hearts and souls.
- Early human occupants of the archipelago looked to the sea for their sustenance.
- In arid northern and western China, to depend on the land for sustenance is to be poor.
- They start out as mindless drones whose only purpose seems to be to gain sustenance by consuming the living.
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