subsisting

Example Sentences

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Subsisting on a young teacher’s pay might be doable if we fixed our housing shortage.

From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2024

Subsisting on bucket after bucket of fried chicken.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 20, 2022

Subsisting wholly as I do on one food, you’ll agree, is all the more extraordinary for its being mackerel.

From Slate • Jun. 19, 2014

Subsisting on tree sap, the 1-inch, wingless male cicada nymphs will crawl out of holes the size of pinky fingers once the ground temperature reaches 64 degrees, then molt into adults, reports NBC Nightly News.

From Time • May 8, 2013

Subsisting as best they could on rain puddles on the plains, they at last found a tolerably permanent hole in a small creek, and then returned to the party at the head of the Gulf.

From The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 by Favenc, Ernest