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sustenance
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  • I do not know what life will be like, separated from a faction—it feels disengaged, like a leaf divided from the tree that gives it sustenance.  (source)
    sustenance = essential support
  • How would I spend the hours I now commit to combing the woods for sustenance if it were so easy to come by?  (source)
    sustenance = food
  • Instead of living in concert with the land, instead of relying on the country for sustenance as the natives did, he attempted to insulate himself from the northern environment with ill-suited military tools and traditions.  (source)
    sustenance = food and essential resources
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  • Louie was more concerned about sanity than he was about sustenance.  (source)
    sustenance = food
  • Having regained her energy through sustenance, Sofia now unleashed a cavalcade of Whys.  (source)
  • Surely it would need sustenance before long?  (source)
  • But since we were so far out of the line of fire, the chief sustenance for any sense of the war was mental.  (source)
    sustenance = essential resource
  • Richard Parker had been a zoo animal as long as he could remember, and he was used to sustenance coming to him without his lifting a paw.  (source)
    sustenance = food
  • Tales were told at these places that people from all over now gathered to hear, for the tales of these natives felt appropriate to this time of migration, and gave listeners much-needed sustenance.  (source)
    sustenance = spiritual or mental support
  • Nearly every religion has some liturgical or social ritual involving the coming together of the faithful to share sustenance.  (source)
    sustenance = food
  • Also now I have gained on him in the question of sustenance.  (source)
    sustenance = food needed for strength and energy
  • Hunger had a way of focusing the mind on every crumb of sustenance, and you couldn't help going and looking to see if something had been overlooked, or some corner forgotten.†  (source)
  • That means 'Servant of the Opener of the Gates of Sustenance.'†  (source)
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