Example Sentences

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In the meantime, the system will subsist on the overtaxed boats of yesteryear.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 2023

Fall is critical for bears, who spend the season bulking up and eating for most of their days in preparation for hibernation when they will subsist on the fat they build up.

From Washington Times • Oct. 31, 2023

The Isle of Wight impressively recycles 50% of its household waste, so the gasification plant will subsist on the other half, the so-called residual waste.

From Time Magazine Archive

Its malignity towards humankind will subsist with undiminished heat, whilst the means of giving it effect must proceed, and every means of resisting it must inevitably and rapidly decline.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

The time is not very far distant, as I am assured, when the people there will subsist on aromatic emanations from material productions, aided by magnetic, electric, and other atmospheric properties used simply by inhalation.

From A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead by Helleberg, C. G. (Carl Gustaf)