sustain
verb (used with object)
to support, hold, or bear up from below; bear the weight of, as a structure.
sustainedly
Example Sentences
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The journal outlines why widespread testing, technology-aided contact tracing, case isolation and the quarantining of contacts will continue to be essential to sustainedly suppress further outbreaks.
From Nature ● May 13, 2020
I think Beethoven is rather spasmodically, than sustainedly, grand.
From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 by William Aldis Wright
But this scrawl—or sprawl—is about all my poor hand can now sustainedly perpetrate; if I continue I shall have to clamour for a mount—a lift—my brave boy of the alphabetic hoofs.
From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by Henry James
The road at length became decidedly and sustainedly better.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various
He makes his points as well, but is less sustainedly pointed.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler
