sustenance

The formula used to determine “absolute poverty” is defined as an income that allows for a basic level of sustenance.

We have come to depend on our technology for emotional sustenance.

Well, no, actually you are feeding your kids properly by giving them healthy, nutritious food, and emotional sustenance, too.

But literary fame never translated into economic success, or even much beyond sustenance.

During particularly harsh beginnings upon landing in the New World, desperate colonists resorted to human flesh for sustenance.

But like the bee, while impelled by an instinct that makes it search for sugar, it sucks in therewith its solid sustenance.

She thus derived from him a rather large part of the sustenance which she believed she owed only to her own efforts.

Indeed, the whole osseous structure of those animals proves that they were formed to uprend the trees that gave them sustenance.

I sent a waiter for café-au-lait and a brioche and lectured her on the folly of going without proper sustenance.

Decaying nature could no longer be recruited by ordinary sources of strength and sustenance.