subsist

How To Use subsist In A Sentence

• We had to subsist on bread and water.
• Up until the 1920s, in the mountain ranges of Westmoreland and south into Fayette, many small farmers subsisted on bear meat, preferable to venison, and considered by many to be juicier and better than beef.
• Mr Mugabe can not fail to understand the consequence of redistribution of the country's most productive land to subsistence farmers.
• We will not be reduced to subsistence farming and exporting fish and chips if the banks leave. Times, Sunday Times
• They must not demand a very high cash outlay or demand a very high degree of risk thereby endangering subsistence.
• In vital activity we see, then, that which subsists of the direct movement in the inverted movement, _a reality which is making itself in a reality which is unmaking itself_. Evolution créatrice. English
• Their earnings brought them almost 30 percent more than the value of the subsistence provided by their former masters. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
• In these solitary regions, the cattle under the charge of our drovers subsisted themselves cheaply, by picking their food as they went along the drove-road, or sometimes by the tempting opportunity of a _start and owerloup_, or invasion of the neighbouring pasture, where an occasion presented itself. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827
• The two bands became docile subsistence farmers on submarginal agricultural land.
• But to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial