Example Sentences

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So far, they had been subsisting on snacks sent through a narrower pipe inserted earlier.

From BBC • Nov. 21, 2023

As opposed to Mr. Marin-Sotelo, who managed to make all the way to Mexico’s Pacific coastline, Mr. Callahan had less of a plan, and had been subsisting off local river water.

From Washington Times • May 9, 2023

A vegetarian since reading Frances Moore Lappé’s "Diet for a Small Planet" in 1971, he had been subsisting on vegetables and homemade “soy grit” burgers.

From Salon • Jan. 4, 2020

The prisoners said that they had been subsisting for weeks on less than half a pound of rice a day; for the last three days before their capture, they had had no food whatsoever.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had been subsisting on bran, nearly starving himself until be was most miserable, and his limbs seemed so cold that they were kept wrapped in blankets.

From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Eddy, Mary Baker