Example sentences for: sustenance

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

  • This is especially true under market conditions, where the need for sustenance can drive people into relationships that they would not choose in and of themselves.

  • Since I know you have a little time to kill before you go to work tonight, I've rustled up the news equivalent of junk food to give you sustenance for the upcoming Evening of the Yo-yos.

  • It continues for just over 10 km (6 miles) until it reaches Portela, where a good restaurant offers sustenance to weary hikers.

  • If Ireland got hit hardest by the famine, it was because it depended more heavily on the potato for sustenance than other countries.

  • The best I can describe the process for me is that it resembles noodling on a piano: I run rhythms and sentences--or maybe not even sentences, the shapes of sentences--across one another, trying out their sounds, and sometimes I get a tune-like combination of sound and syntax that makes me want to go on, extend and refine it, as it comes to dredge sustenance from the great pool of feelings and ideas that accumulates in a life.


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