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Recent Examples of sustenance
For example, the ancient Wampanoag people relied on the ponds for sustenance.
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Mary Forgione, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
This was a home, this was sustenance and protection, on the floorboards, under the lights and with the full blast of love from several thousand people.
—Rosanne Cash, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2024
To observe so soon into her life story that there is no sustenance in the past is to give the past an edge.
—Hazlitt, 2 Oct. 2024
For humans, the entire comb is a bounty of sustenance and utility.
—Barrett Klein, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Oct. 2024
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Mary Forgione, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
This was a home, this was sustenance and protection, on the floorboards, under the lights and with the full blast of love from several thousand people.
—Rosanne Cash, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2024
To observe so soon into her life story that there is no sustenance in the past is to give the past an edge.
—Hazlitt, 2 Oct. 2024
For humans, the entire comb is a bounty of sustenance and utility.
—Barrett Klein, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Oct. 2024
See all Example Sentences for sustenance
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“Sustenance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sustenance. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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