SUSTAIN in a Sentence
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119 example sentences for SUSTAIN, such as:
1. These four posts sustain the entire building.
2. I only had a little chocolate to sustain me on my walk.
3. Suellen has her shame to sustain her and Carreen her God.
4. He was sustained by the unflagging support of his family.
5. She found it difficult to sustain the children's interest.
2. I only had a little chocolate to sustain me on my walk.
3. Suellen has her shame to sustain her and Carreen her God.
4. He was sustained by the unflagging support of his family.
5. She found it difficult to sustain the children's interest.
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Meanings and Examples of SUSTAIN
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sustain
v. establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
v. admit as valid
Classic Sentence: (85 in 6 pages)
1 But until this very day, two hopes had been left to sustain her.
2 Suellen has her shame to sustain her and Carreen her God.
3 Happily for both, there was little physical strength to sustain his frenzy.
4 She was not fond of Bertha Dorset, but neither was she without a sense of obligation, the heavier for having so little personal liking to sustain it.
5 But one cannot sustain an indifferent air concerning Fedallah.
6 The timbers beneath are of a peculiar strength, fitted to sustain the weight of an almost solid mass of brick and mortar, some ten feet by eight square, and five in height.
7 It was evident that the unexpected blow had struck deep into his heart, though he struggled to sustain his misfortune with the port of a man.
8 Presuming on his disguise, and his ability to sustain the character he had assumed, he took the most plain and direct route to the place.
9 So strong was my desire, that I thought a gratification of it would fully compensate for whatever loss of comforts I should sustain by the exchange.
10 Prior to his conversion, he relied upon his own depravity to shield and sustain him in his savage barbarity; but after his conversion, he found religious sanction and support for his slaveholding cruelty.
11 We can't have perfection; and if I keep him, I must sustain his administration as a whole, even if there are, now and then, things that are exceptionable.
12 I could hardly sustain the multitude of feelings that crowded into my mind.
13 But now, with this unattended walk from her prison door, began the daily custom; and she must either sustain and carry it forward by the ordinary resources of her nature, or sink beneath it.
14 A miserable foreboding that she would yield to, and sustain herself by, the same feeling in reference to any sacrifice for his sake, had oppressed me ever since.
15 If the individuals in the Money Market oblige Mr. Micawber to sustain a great sacrifice, that is between themselves and their consciences.
Example Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1 I only had a little chocolate to sustain me on my walk.
2 These four posts sustain the entire building.
3 The economy looks set to sustain its growth into next year.
4 She found it difficult to sustain the children's interest.
5 The soil was so badly eroded it could no longer sustain crop production.
6 How can a country like Spain sustain the millions of migrants who were losing their jobs in 2009 and provide them with the same welfare state Spaniards can access in times of economic crisis?
7 Universities are connected to the societies that sustain them; but these connections are relationships that require cultivation, not by the university public relations office but by academics themselves.
8 But he has sustained his fierce social conscience from young adulthood through old age.
9 The chant is certain to be sustained until the International Board announce their decision at their annual meeting in Auckland next April.
10 We don't have the confidence that the UN will carry through a sustained program.
11 The love and support of his family sustained him during his time in prison.
12 He was sustained by the unflagging support of his family.
13 Four police officers sustained serious injuries in the explosion.
14 At least one-third of all women over ninety have sustained a hip fracture.
15 He sustained injuries to his arms, legs and several internal organs.