- present tense form of sustain (3rd person singular).
sustains
Example Sentences
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Orator William M. Evarts declared: “I tell you that when the statue of Washington sustains in its firm hand the splintered flag-staff of Fort Sumter, it means something.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 3, 2026
Once authorized, the facility will be allowed to load nuclear fuel and begin start-up testing to achieve first criticality—the point at which a reactor sustains a controlled nuclear chain reaction.
From Barron's • Jul. 1, 2026
“We are bound to this thing… It sustains us.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2026
“Snowflake and Datadog have seen a reacceleration of revenue from AI. And so we have to see if that sustains, but that’s the best sign you could hope for,” he says.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026
One reason just mentioned is that agriculture sustains much higher human population densities than does the hunting-gathering lifestyle—on the average, 10 to 100 times higher.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
