had subsisted
- past perfect of subsist.
Example Sentences
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Aid workers greeted the Azovstal evacuees in a shopping complex in Zaporizhzhia, offering tea and snacks after they had subsisted on expired Russian rations heated on wood fires.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2022
In Sonora, Jesuit missionaries encouraged Indigenous tribes, who had subsisted mostly on beans, corn and squash, to raise them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2021
By the time the pipeline was fully restored, some households had subsisted on nothing but small jerrycans for almost an entire month.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2020
Shaffer never again returned to the island, but "she was totally romantic about it," said her niece, constantly recounting tales to her family of how the islanders had subsisted on so little.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2018
They had subsisted on leftovers and the occasional McDonald’s takeout from Window Rock.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
