Sample Sentences for
subsist
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    They subsist by selling firewood in town.
    subsist = barley survive
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    Game was scarce, forcing Franklin and his men to subsist on lichens scraped from boulders, singed deer hide, scavenged animal bones, their own boot leather, and finally one another's flesh.  (source)
    subsist = survive
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    Between Elizabeth and Charlotte there was a restraint which kept them mutually silent on the subject; and Elizabeth felt persuaded that no real confidence could ever subsist between them again.  (source)
    subsist = exist
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    Until the snafu was straightened out, he had to subsist on candy bars from Red Cross nurses.†  (source)
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    Other than that, he subsisted on a diet of potatoes and salt.†  (source)
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    Since they'd rescued him from the bronze jar in Rome, Nico had slept very little and eaten even less, as if he were still subsisting on those emergency pomegranate seeds from the Underworld.†  (source)
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    THE FOOD THIS FAMILY SUBSISTS ON IS LIKE NOTHING I'VE EVER eaten before.†  (source)
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    But she was haunted by worries too, revolving around dependence, worries that in going abroad and leaving their country she and Saeed and Saeed's father might be at the mercy of strangers, subsistent on handouts, caged in pens like vermin.†  (source)
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    Just the whisper of an unwillingness to subsist on scraps offered by others.†  (source)
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    Their mounts subsisted on the tough brown devilgrass that grew in clumps at the base of rocks and dead trees.†  (source)
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    They were a society of indigents subsisting without heat, lights or water.†  (source)
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    And since in this famous fishery, each mate or headsman, like a Gothic Knight of old, is always accompanied by his boat-steerer or harpooneer, who in certain conjunctures provides him with a fresh lance, when the former one has been badly twisted, or elbowed in the assault; and moreover, as there generally subsists between the two, a close intimacy and friendliness; it is therefore but meet, that in this place we set down who the Pequod's harpooneers were, and to what headsman each of them belonged.†  (source)
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    "It was once commonly maintained that Beauty, Goodness, and Truth were subsistent entities," he said.†  (source)
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