- present tense form of sustain (3rd person singular).
sustains
Example Sentences
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“You can only find it in King’s Landing. It sustains itself on the waste of other creatures. It’s beautiful.”
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
He added that the community, too, “is engaged to ensure a project that honors the past, respects the present, and sustains our future.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 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
Given the amount of uncertainty and change ahead, passion is what sustains the motivation to keep learning and adapting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
But this fact sustains me only in the way that, say, the prospect of heaven cheers a terminally ill person: it’s nice to know, but it isn’t much help from moment to moment.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
