self-sustaining
adjective
self-sustainment
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a word derived from
self-sustaining.
Example Sentences
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But Afghanistan will continue to provide just a fraction of those costs, despite past predictions that the country would eventually be moving closer to self-sustainment.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2016
Fanny combined with the attractions of her youth and beauty, a certain weight of self-sustainment as if she had been married twenty years.
From Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
No other talisman has the power; pride, self-sustainment, coldness, pleasure, nothing—nothing—but that divine word of Life which is life's soul!
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 424 Volume 17, New Series, February 14, 1852 by Robert Chambers
A right knowledge and apprehension of the past teaches humbleness and self-sustainment to the present.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index by Henry Cabot Lodge
Emerson said that The Nation had “breadth, variety, self-sustainment, and an admirable style of thought and expression.”—“I owe much to The Nation,” wrote Francis Parkman.
From Historical Essays by James Ford Rhodes
