subsist
Example Sentences
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Per capita disposable income in cities is less than $700 a month, while in the countryside as many as several hundred million people subsist on just a few dollars each day.
Even Oliver, a man who long subsisted on dips, has nothing bad to say.
From Salon
The men ran out of food, subsisting on what they scrounged up: vitamins pills and pancake mix.
From Los Angeles Times
Back before California was settled by Europeans and others, the Miwok and Nisenan subsisted on a hunter-gatherer diet of acorns, venison, salmon, pine nuts, elderberries, and other berries and plants.
From Los Angeles Times
The only survivor is his younger sister, Nezuko, who has been turned into an oni, a carnivorous demon who usually subsists on a diet of humans and is averse to sunlight.
From Los Angeles Times
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