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UK
/səstˈeɪn/
]
[ US /səˈsteɪn/ ]
[ US /səˈsteɪn/ ]
VERB
-
undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
He had an insulin shock after eating three candy bars
She got a bruise on her leg
He got his arm broken in the scuffle
She suffered a fracture in the accident -
be the physical support of; carry the weight of
He supported me with one hand while I balanced on the beam
What's holding that mirror?
The beam holds up the roof -
supply with necessities and support
The money will sustain our good cause
She alone sustained her family
There's little to earn and many to keep -
admit as valid
The court sustained the motion -
provide with nourishment
We sustained ourselves on bread and water
This kind of food is not nourishing for young children -
establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
his story confirmed my doubts
The evidence supports the defendant -
lengthen or extend in duration or space
prolong the treatment of the patient
keep up the good work
We sustained the diplomatic negotiations as long as possible
How To Use sustain In A Sentence
- A couple of arty carpenters work with sustainable wood. Times, Sunday Times
- What we need now is a recovery that is sustainable. The Sun
- But anywhere else, the general buzz of the atmosphere would have sustained the crowd.
- Only a very strong, perhaps only a globally dominant, power can sustain informal empire in the long run.
- The first is that China will continue to sustain high growth rates in gross national product.
- But decades of research have gone by and scientists remain incapable of creating a sustainable fusion reaction that could be used to create reliable power.
- On the one hand, it was a powerful tool to enhance or sustain personal and corporate power, wealth, and status.
- But it is hard to sustain that insistence on the preservation of the Catholic tradition on the one hand with a total insistence on the diminution of a Protestant tradition on the other.
- Moreover, for logistics companies there are considerable long-term questions over the economic and environmental sustainability of home delivery. Times, Sunday Times
- The book is a sustained diatribe questioning Churchill's actions from the early 1930s through 1941.
