How To Use Sustenance In A Sentence

People can and do draw sustenance from many sources.
It is the unmanaged Nature that stressed our developing beings to make us strong, that provided not only physical sustenance but the avenues for both love and loss: the genesis of human compassion.
She was currently relying on the generosity of others to provide her lodging and sustenance.
It is a small, intimate and humble place where a simple congregation once gathered for spiritual sustenance.
Water ionizers, also known as alkalized or alkaline water machines, are another great option for obtaining alkaline-forming sustenance. NaturalNews.com

But in the trend to materialism which thus drew sustenance from a broad spectrum of sources, the im - portance of Spinoza as a catalyzing agent should not be neglected. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Most adult lacewings get their sustenance from pollen, nectar, and the honeydew produced by aphids and scales.
I should not have to rely on sustenance to the touch than the future.
Many cultures bias their legacies, parental care, sustenance, and favoritism toward sons at the expense of daughters.
Insects serve as pollinators for food crops, nutritious sustenance for a range of birds and mammals, and decomposers of plant and animal products.
That phone booth, at the time, regarded as one of my spiritual sustenance.
He is talking about people in mid-20th century harvesting a substantial part of their sustenance and livelihood from fish, game and furbearers.
Anthropologist Adrienne Zihlman and others have noted that for 25,000 years in the preagricultural band societies, 80 percent of their sustenance came from gathering and 20 percent from hunting. Birute Regine: Ending Hunger Starts With Women
But at threescore and upward, men's courage turns cauldrife; and they that canna win a living, must not endanger the small sustenance of their age. The Fortunes of Nigel
This last feature also had the unintended consequence of reducing the inflow of remittances form foreign workers, which has been an important source of sustenance of Pakistan's balance of payments.
During the summer, many of us avail ourselves of giant blockbuster books, bodice-rippers and techno-thrillers, tomes about the size of a brick with the sustenance of cotton candy.
Democracy's wellsprings and sustenance were of vital importance to Walter Duncan in 1962, just as they are to us today.
They are like the lacteal sustenance that is yielded by the mother's breast. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
He had as well ordered Blair's chambermaids to dress her after she had completed bathing, so that she could have some sustenance other than stale bread and other hard tack eaten on days of leave, but she had yet to emerge into the dining hall.
I was an adolescent numb to yuletide cheer, a glutton for material sustenance, mainly of the toy variety.
The market might be saturated, but it matters little for these ubiquitous hawkers, who can't even temporarily suspend or postpone their requirements of daily sustenance.
Elections are necessary for the sustenance of democracy.
That's their main source of alcoholic sustenance: five bottles of Bud, Miller, Becks or Stella Artois will get them through even the most punishing night out.
For people with binge eating disorder, at first food may provide sustenance or comfort, but later it's the focus of incredible guilt and distress.
Yet behind the irony in the final rhythmic incantation we read an emptiness that is neither spiritual sustenance, nor love.
The towns and townspeople depended on the tribute for their sustenance.
Two hours before boarding and it's into the junk food emporium upstairs for sustenance.
There was only one source of sustenance for this kind of visual appetite in the textile town of Bohain-en-Vermandois, where Matisse spent his first twenty years.
It was a source of sustenance, and nothing more.
During this freezing weather, the food put out by householders is the only form of sustenance that the birds have.
I should not have to rely on sustenance to the touch than the future.
Each had an individual story that complemented the other, creating ecological beauty and providing spiritual as well as physical sustenance.
He has given us light with wax, sustenance with honey and propolis, which is antiviral.
We are meant to find sustenance and joy from this planet.
When full, the 2ft 5in-high piece can serve 1,024 cuppas - enough to provide half-time sustenance for 93 football teams.
Each had an individual story that complemented the other, creating ecological beauty and providing spiritual as well as physical sustenance.
It would tell her how to place the crablike feet for safety and speed, how to search recesses of the barren land for little wisps of sustenance or water. Songs of Love & Death
Rice was the basis of daily sustenance.
He consequently had to remain solely on his own surface, looking outward for sustenance.
A stick of celery does not provide much sustenance.
I am a happy man to have learnt that you have a faith of sorts - no one could recover so quickly without a source of spiritual sustenance.
That remains devoted to status, sustenance of our image, and acceptance as the great reward for all our efforts!
The state provided a basic quantity of food for daily sustenance, but little else.
If the money's not spent on essentials like a €7 beef roll a decent investment if you need sustenance after a night drinking outdoors in Shop Street then it's gambled.
There was the Lease-Lend, given without strings-probably foolishly -- and to an extent far beyond the mere sustenance of Russian defensive power. The Russian Riddle
Nor is this all; Critognatus in his harangue tells them that their ancestors had had recourse to the same kind of sustenance in the war with the Cimbri and Teutones. A Philosophical Dictionary
At any given time in our history, West Indies cricket has drawn on the available pool of young, talented and capable males for its sustenance.
Behind this eminence, but detached from it, arose a higher hill, partly covered with copsewood, partly opening into glades of pasture, where the cattle strayed, finding, at this season of the year, a scanty sustenance among the spring heads and marshy places, where the fresh grass began first to arise. The Fair Maid of Perth
Those adaptations enable the rodent to rely on the evergreen saltbush plants for sustenance throughout the year.
The coralroots are the only members of the orchid family native to Nova Scotia that are without chlorophyll and depend upon the decomposing remains of other plants for sustenance.
Conscious killing beyond the needs of sustenance is a violation.
I find it sad that our notions of fun are equated with destruction and violence, and not creation and sustenance.
The land they occupied, like that of their immediate neighbours, could provide no reliable source of income or sustenance and the threat of starvation and eviction hung constantly over their heads.
However, when the two come together in a market-driven world, it can transform itself into the best source of sustenance especially for a television channel.
Those living along the Genale River which borders Afder have turned to the palm trees for food, scraping sustenance from the dark brown seeds with their teeth.
They inherited a tradition of faith and fatherland which gave them strength and sustenance wherever life took them.
Under this system, the lords are afforded sustenance and men-at-arms from those beneath them on the hierarchy ladder, while those below are afforded protection by those above.
There's not much sustenance in a glass of orange squash.
The earth brings forth large crops every year for the sustenance of man and beast.
The perfect delivery method for food is unquestionably a sandwich - almost all sources of sustenance are improved by inclusion in such a meal.
One shell hit a ration dump, covering part of the perimeter with a layer of Spam, providing sustenance for the army of rats that called Guadalcanal home. The Do-or-Die Men
Labourers are they who provide us with sustenance, the ploughmen and husbandmen devoted to that alone.
Father Peter, its guiding light, was also its provider of funds and sustenance.
On October 10 the 'prentice' Henham writes: 'My master Betson is right well amended, blessed be Jesus, and he is past all doubts of sickness and he takes the sustenance right well, and as for physicians, there come none unto him, for he hath no need of them.' [ Medieval People
These sad, determine men have found that their one-time hobby has become a must have matter of sustenance, like karmic nourishment for their soul.
Many cultures bias their legacies, parental care, sustenance, and favoritism toward sons at the expense of daughters.
Further afield where camels browse, we found dried-up, and unyielding acacia trees, normally a reliable source of sustenance.
Her faith was very much a central force in her life and was a source of guidance, strength and sustenance over the years.
We all need the sustenance of classic and art films that madden, provoke, disturb and challenge us - at least until they come out with the Star Wars II DVD.
Too bad if those octogenarians served in World War II or Korea or just gave life and sustenance to their families and communities for several decades.
Unlike now when love is bound by how much one can offer in terms of sustenance and outings, the romance of the time was real.
It's now clear to me that the Alpha Male is a dinosaur, dragging his hopeless old carcass across a desolate desert and finding no water, no sustenance and is almost history.
I should not have to rely on sustenance to the touch than the future.
Because they need a lot of food, especially when the days shorten and sustenance becomes scarce, chickadees spend all autumn gathering and storing food.
During this freezing weather, the food put out by householders is the only form of sustenance that the birds have.
There are many words, many lines, that stick and stay in my memory, that provide a certain comfort, connection, sustenance.
Many cultures bias their legacies, parental care, sustenance, and favoritism toward sons at the expense of daughters.
We cease to oxygenise our blood vicariously as soon as we are born, but we still derive our sustenance from our mothers. Life and Habit
Around this tiny flicker, a maelstrom of black magicks roiled, drawing sustenance from this sweet flame just as the flames of darkfire dancing on Vira’ni’s skin drew energies from the firelight and moonshine. Wit'ch Storm
During this freezing weather, the food put out by householders is the only form of sustenance that the birds have.
That remains devoted to status, sustenance of our image, and acceptance as the great reward for all our efforts!
None of it looks much like sustenance for a manlier-than-thou posture. Times, Sunday Times
The only sustenance he received, was cyder and water. The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.
Caffeine is obvs the number one sustenance of sleep-deprived college students everywhere.
She alleged she was kept in solitary confinement on occasions, deprived of food and sustenance, had her hair shorn and was stripped of her clothes on a number of occasions.
I love Shakespeare and he is the source of absolute spiritual sustenance for me - yet here I couldn't hear his beautiful language and found it utterly distorted when I could.
So, he came to live in that place, and none knew how he lived or gained his sustenance, other than from his foraging the countryside for bottles and other redeemable scrap.
Yet one atchievement was wanting to confirm it in its complete extent: their captive refused every kind of sustenance, nor were they properly acquainted with the means necessary to enforce it; and to lose him before they could procure testimonials of his safe arrival in Lisbon, would be to lose the rewards annexed to that important clause. The Irish Guardian, or, Errors of Eccentricity
It's not just sustenance -- it's baguettes blobbed with sea-urchin roe and smeared with Korean-mustard-oil butter, milk-braised turkey leg on Pullman, oak-smoked salami squished into an onion roll. The 101 Best Sandwiches In New York
There's not much sustenance in a bowl of soup.
The bursar hated Conan, ever since the time when the Cimmerian caught him taking extra servings of victuals from the mess hall - sustenance intended for warriors, not scribblers. Archive 2010-02-01
The anthropologist is aware that relationships take time to build and require maintenance and sustenance. Discourse.net: A Recipe for Increasing Human Happiness
This is because flesh is a power-packed, vitamin-rich, and calorie-dense source of sustenance. Jenna Woginrich: If You Care About Farm Animals: Eat Them.
they were in want of sustenance
Saddest of all, workers will continue to brave health and physical threats only to earn a meager amount of money to buy sustenance for their families.
May be said to be a dependent. Spiritual sustenance.
Equally intriguing are the instructions for more obscure sustenance such as rum omelets, sago-cream pudding, Shrovetide pancakes, furmety, syllabub, dulcet creams, and an adaptation for curds and whey.
I swear, if I find that it was emissions from my truck causing it, I will dig a hole in the backyard, climb in, and eat grubs for sustenance.
What was once our sustenance has become carcinogenic and devoid of goodness and nourishment.
The corpses of the neritic animals and of those that swim between the two waters are the direct or indirect sustenance of the abyssal fauna. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel
Notwithstanding, to our abilitie, we will honour him with some part of those things which haue bene, by the goodnes of God and the fauour of the Pope, bestowed vpon vs for our sustenance. The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini
During this freezing weather, the food put out by householders is the only form of sustenance that the birds have.
After all, ‘the motivation of the cook to offer sustenance is as nourishing as the food prepared’.
At the time of procreation this speck of entity is received into an appropriated nidus, in which it must acquire two circumstances necessary to its life and growth; one of these is food or sustenance, which is to be received by the absorbent mouths of its vessels; and the other is that part of atmospherical air, or of water, which by the new chemistry is termed oxygene, and which affects the blood by passing through the coats of the vessels which contain it. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
The state provided a basic quantity of food for daily sustenance, but little else.
The ties between universities and accrediting bodies have traditionally run deep, making both dependent upon increased student enrollments for their sustenance: Regional accreditors derive the vast majority of their operating revenue from fees assessed on the colleges they review. Buying Legitimacy: How A Group Of California Executives Built An Online College Empire
Although it lives in a muddy place, a swan can pick up the right food for its sustenance.
A meagre, whitish soil, thirsty and unrecuperative, afforded grudging sustenance to a puny, grotesque growth of blackjack and chincapin, even the renovating pine -- the badge of the State -- being in many places a rarity. "The Free Negroes of North Carolina"
Larger titan triggerfish crunched their way through dead coral in search of some sustenance.
We watch as the family boils wallpaper for sustenance from glue, chews leather from old schoolbags, grows so weak that Kolya can only stroke his toys, no longer strong enough to play with them.
Individuals have to derive all their sustenance from a leader.
Rice was the basis of daily sustenance.
A stick of celery does not provide much sustenance.
The state provided a basic quantity of food for daily sustenance, but little else.
The enforcement of the game laws, feudal in origin, peaked during the industrial revolution, separating ruralists from their source of sustenance and pressuring them to accept wage labor.
He argued that any _human_ being living in the cave would require sustenance, and of course would purchase it at his fort, which was the only one where the necessaries of life could be procured for many miles around; but he knew every one who came to him, and no stranger had ever come on such an errand; he therefore concluded with an appealing look to the moollah who was with us. A Peep into Toorkisthhan
It would be as easy and as profitable a problem to solve the Rabelaisian riddle of the bombinating chimaera with its potential or hypothetical faculty of deriving sustenance from a course of diet on second intentions, as to read the riddle of Shakespeare's design in the procreation of this yet more mysterious and magnificent monster of a play. A Study of Shakespeare
Indigent man was I, whose dietetical elegancies had been forgotten, a man with ravenous desires seeking sustenance, not relishes; the means of life, not the means of pampering the carcass; I wanted food. Across China on Foot
Elections are necessary for the sustenance of democracy.
Bird feeders, and those that maintain them, play an invaluable role in the sustenance of countless birds otherwise threatened by dwindling habitat and resources.
As Scottish children rely on low-grade processed foods and fizzy drinks for daily sustenance, the devastating effects are beginning to show.
Thirty years ago we planted a seed that has grown into a strong and vibrant tree, but that tree needs sustenance, part of which is money.
In early times this was one of the important fords over the River Griese, and was at that time called Athbiothlinn meaning The Ford of the House of Sustenance.
Every individual has an input and part to play in the creation and sustenance of democracy.
Coke goes on to say estovers signify sustenance, aliment, or nourishment.
We derive our sustenance from the land.
Not that these nuns are not good cooks and bakers: witness the delicate sweetmeats, biscuits and pastry they offer to strangers on such festival days as the one just described, the fruit-preserves in blocks sold for their sustenance by the nuns at Funchal, Madeira, and the fairy frostwork of sugar seen on great occasions in French convents. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876
Nature, for them, is not just a source of sustenance, but an intrinsic part of their lives.
The earth brings forth large crops every year for the sustenance of man and beast.
That phone booth, at the time, regarded as one of my spiritual sustenance.
No blood supply nourishes these loose bodies therefore they derive sustenance from the synovial fluid alone.
The Association argued that this definition would include non-military assistance and humanitarian aid such as medical assistance, sustenance and disaster relief.
Speaking of the condition of slaves, in the eastern part of that state, the report says, -- "The master puts the unfortunate wretches upon short allowances, scarcely sufficient for their sustenance, so that a _great part_ of them go _half starved_ much of the time. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
The birds have had to rely on haws and berries and there are no cornfields in the western regions, most birds are thin and underdeveloped because of lack of sustenance.
That remains devoted to status, sustenance of our image, and acceptance as the great reward for all our efforts!
There's not much sustenance in a bowl of soup.
Asgeonomics provides economic independence for everyone, geonomics would beof interest tothe Women's Movement leading to new forms of family lifewith men who would share more in daily complementary nurture, with both man and woman assured thatinfants and children all over the world could draw directly on theircommon citizen's dividend for economic sustenance! Consciousness and Development
Throughout the islands, food is not only valued for sustenance, it is used to create and maintain cohesiveness.
By filtering sunlight and mixing selected wavelengths in what Keats calls "appetizing combinations" for plants that are used to savagely foraging on whatever solar sustenance they can find, Keats is humorously reminding a gluttonous humanity how much it takes its flora for granted. Wired Top Stories
The craving for food, liquid sustenance, was so strong that when I was visualizing the food, I felt like I could reach out and grab them.
Long, long ago these deities had consumed their worshippers unto extinction for the psychic sustenance their dying souls provided.
A meat-eater may become upset when it is suggested that her everyday eating habits contribute to the destruction of the rain forests; to the meat-eater, the hamburger is congruous with sustenance, not destruction.
During this freezing weather, the food put out by householders is the only form of sustenance that the birds have.
It thought of the insects and vermin that it had fed on, the most meager of sustenance to maintain its life, but enough to eventually give it the strength to free it self.
It brings forth the serene power of creation and sustenance through the ages.
It is fundamentally a socio-political issue in the broad sense, a question of the formation and sustenance of new patterns of life.
Also pigs; for half a dozen great raw-boned pink and dirty swine rootled about in the woods near by for sustenance. The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915
At an early age Wulfgar left the house of de Sward, and he and Sweyn found their sustenance by hiring out as soldiers of war. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
Polish railwaymen, for example, secured the entire sustenance of the German eastern front. How Technology Almost Lost the War « Isegoria
We need sustenance and a viable habitat, but we also need social cohesion and connection of all sorts.
Later in the night many would retire to Deros for tea and sandwiches to give them sustenance for the long cycle to some outlying parish.
When shopping is done, repair to an estaminet for sustenance such as waterzooi fish stew or the four-meat potjevleesch. Times, Sunday Times
Provisions are now so scarce that no bit of animal food ever seasons the paste of mandioc flour, which is the sustenance of slaves: and even of this, these poor children, by their projecting bones and hollow cheeks, show that they seldom get a sufficiency. Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823
During this freezing weather, the food put out by householders is the only form of sustenance that the birds have.
So the Body of Christ, which is to say everyone, the deeply personal “I,” is deserving of support, sustenance, and care. On hoping that there’s still a little bit of Don Quixote within. | Mind on Fire
They steal the olives and destroy the olive trees - the village's main source of sustenance.
The creation and sustenance of these institutions would not have been possible without the support of the local citizenry.
There's not much sustenance in a glass of orange squash.
For it was precisely from Luther's spirit of innovation that the sustenance of Darwin's biologism was first drawn.
They were hard times but through it all Mae showed a remarkable resilient nature, aided by her deep faith from which she drew sustenance and strength.
Since the beginning of time, the Sea of Galilee has provided its fishermen with a plentiful source of sustenance.
Without sustenance, the animals will soon die.
We depended on that ox not only for transportation but also for sustenance.
Elections are essential for the sustenance of parliamentary democracy.
More than 20 Eucalyptus species provide sustenance for koalas, but in any given region, the marsupials eat only a few species.
When her husband died, she drew sustenance from/she found sustenance in her religious beliefs.
Rice was the basis of daily sustenance.
What a frenetic picture this conjures of a cartoon chase from aisle to car, with tottering piles of Christmas sustenance, food bought as if for a month-long siege instead of a few days off.
After all this is the thing that you use to buy the food that gives you sustenance.
Organic farming, various types of assistance to local families in need, and practical schemes for family sustenance became my immediate tasks.
Elections are essential for the sustenance of parliamentary democracy.
I should not have to rely on sustenance to the touch than the future.
The zones earmarked for growth are poised like three swords of Damocles around London's periphery, each one centred on its own source of sustenance: a dirty great road.
Found mainly in country pubs, it provides sustenance after a good ramble through the fields.
Over the next four days there was nothing for it but bed rest, regular doses of paracetamol washed down with water, and the occasional banana for sustenance.
We see the same hypocrisy when the U.S. military, after dislocating millions of people from their means of sustenance by threatening war, drops a minuscule amount of food packets onto ground riddled with landmines.
Call it instinct, masochism, whatever - but most women want children, continue to accept the role of primary carer, and reap psychological and emotional sustenance from motherhood.

How To Use Sustenance In A Sentence

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