- present tense form of sustain (3rd person singular).
sustains
Example Sentences
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Only the challenge to our will, Our pride in learning any skill, Sustains our effort to be ill.
From Time Magazine Archive
Keats is made "one with Nature"; he is a parce of that power "Which wields the world with never wearied love, Sustains it from beneath, and kindles it above."
From Shelley by Waterlow, Sydney
But he, accomplished in Jehovah-being, Sustains the gaze adown, Conceives the vast despair, And feels the billowy griefs come up to drown, Nor fears, nor faints, nor fails, till all be finished.
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
A grave I know Where earthly show Is not—a mound Whose gentle round Sustains the load Of a fresh sod.
From The Biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne by Bonar, Andrew A.
My sister goddess, and well-pleasing wife, Still think you Venus' aid supports the strife- Sustains her Trojans- or themselves, alone, With inborn valor force their fortune on?
From The Aeneid English by Virgil
