Example Sentences

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I’ve been practicing yoga regularly for nearly five years now and have been subsisting on a series of five-dollar mats from Five Below for the majority of those five years.

From Slate • Nov. 29, 2019

He visited a clinic vaccinating children from deadly, preventable diseases including pneumonia, and a program that houses and educates young girls who have been subsisting on landfills.

From Seattle Times • May 21, 2019

Barbee: The local people are the stewards of these environments, and so often we find in these places that the local people have been subsisting around these forests for a really long time.

From The Verge • Aug. 28, 2018

Cosmonauts Malenchenko, Valeri Poliakov and Talgat Musabayev have been subsisting on supplies left over from earlier missions, including food two years past its expiration date.

From Time Magazine Archive

The brutal truth is that the American Merchant Marine has been living off its fat for the past 15 years; that is, we have been subsisting upon the war-built fleet.

From Time Magazine Archive