sustenance
Example Sentences
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What unites these cuisines isn’t a single dish, but a mindset: cooking according to season, stretching resources, and prioritizing sustenance over spectacle.
From Salon
These “easy wins” bridge the gap between exhaustion and sustenance without forcing you to spend $72 on a pair of sad burrito bowls from a takeout app.
From Salon
On the ground level, this means community volunteer efforts like neighborhood environmental cleanups, helping food pantries distribute sustenance to families in need and volunteers assisting underfunded local libraries.
From Salon
His art would ever after draw sustenance from the region’s forms, practices and traditions.
It often took all day to create every meal from scratch, laboring in a hot kitchen to cook enough sustenance to support dawn- to-dusk physical labor.
From Literature
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.