All 8 Uses
sustain
in
Flags of Our Fathers
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- In return for the Pimas' generosity and even protection under attacks by Apaches, the migrating Easterners who settled in Arizona began to help themselves to the same water sources that sustained the peaceful culture.†
Chpt 2.
- Tarawa was the first major amphibious assault in which the Marines faced sustained opposition on the beach.†
Chpt 4. *
- General Curtis LeMay, commander of the Twentieth Air Force, warned that his pilots could not sustain these losses much longer.†
Chpt 6.
- Iwo Jima would be bombed for seventy-two consecutive days, setting the record as the most heavily bombed target and the longest sustained bombardment in the Pacific War.†
Chpt 6.
- Among the many heroes on the field, none surpassed the sustained courage of Lieutenant Keith Wells, Don Ruhl's 3rd Platoon leader and the man who had stood up to inspire the initial charge.†
Chpt 9.
- To the north, the main force of Marines had been battling with equal valor and sustaining equally severe casualties.†
Chpt 10.
- By March 21, the invasion force on Iwo Jima had been attacking for thirty-one consecutive days—a sustained effort unique in modern warfare.†
Chpt 13.
- I can only imagine the thoughts that must have coursed through my father's mind as he heard these words: my father, age twenty-one, two years out of his adolescence, who had never wished more fervently for anything than he wished for the day he could return to Wisconsin, marry, start a family, and open his funeral home—the quiet dream that had sustained him through the long months in the Pacific, who indeed "gave himself wholly to the United States of America."†
Chpt 16.
Definitions:
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(1)
(sustain as in: sustained by her faith) provide support or necessities
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(2)
(sustain as in: sustained through the ages) to continue through time
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(3)
(sustain as in: sustained wounds) to suffer (as of injury, damage, or loss)
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(4)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, sustained can be voiced by a judge in a court of law to indicate that an objection is upheld.