sustained

[ UK /səstˈe‍ɪnd/ ]
[ US /səˈsteɪnd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. (of an electric arc) continuous
    heat transfer to the anode in free burning arcs
  2. maintained at length without interruption or weakening
    sustained flight
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How To Use sustained In A Sentence

  • But it must be open to question whether such a level of support can be sustained if there are serious military reverses and a consequent daily diet of harrowing television pictures.
  • But anywhere else, the general buzz of the atmosphere would have sustained the crowd.
  • The book is a sustained diatribe questioning Churchill's actions from the early 1930s through 1941.
  • Surely one of the agonizing attributes of our post – September 11 age is the unending need to reaffirm realities that have been proved, and proved again, but just as doggedly denied by those in power, forcing us to live trapped between two narratives of present history, the one gaining life and color and vigor as more facts become known, the other growing ever paler, brittler, more desiccated, barely sustained by the life support of official power. 'The Moment Has Come to Get Rid of Saddam'
  • The Lions deserve the sweet victory in light of their sustained investment in good players.
  • The unsafeness need not cause the injury sustained. There need not be any injury; there just need be an unsafe place.
  • Additionally, spontaneous rhythms, sustained bigeminies, paroxysmal tachycardias and other tachyarrhythmias were also observed in the different experiment.
  • They performed well - many have sustained their popularity for years mainly because they give excellent performance for low cost.
  • Four people were gored and several others sustained scrapes and cuts yesterday as large crowds of enthusiasts in the Spanish city of Pamplona ran alongside six fighting bulls in the third bull run of the annual San Fermin festival.
  • The sustained rate of violence was real, not merely a reflection of a new awareness or better record keeping.
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