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As Boy Scouts, the twins learned to survive in the wilderness, or at least subsist on oatmeal for two days as they did once after running out of other food.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

Those who subsist on the fringes of the Vegas tourism orbit are aware that they are in a funk but are nonetheless powerless to fix it.

From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2025

When you subsist on crumbs for long enough, you learn to make a meal out of them.

From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2025

Many of them eat only one meal a day and subsist on high energy biscuits given by the charity, she said.

From BBC ● May 23, 2025

There was a time when I had willpower, when I could run 10k before breakfast and subsist for weeks on thirteen hundred calories a day.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

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 ● Sep. 12, 2025

This could affect the bird's ability to survive in tidal marshes, where it subsists on saltwater and salty crustaceans, something freshwater birds are ill-adapted to.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 24, 2024

He is unemployed and subsists on the corn and beans he grows.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 20, 2023

Thus she subsists on the blood of animals, a solution that becomes increasingly unworkable as her hunger increases.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2023

The food this family subsists on is like nothing I’ve ever eaten before.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

Cramped inside vessels overladen with precious cargo, crewmembers subsisted on a miserable diet of hardtack, an unleavened bread, and salted meat and fish that routinely spoiled and left many gravely ill.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

Through much of U.S. history, the federal government subsisted on the proceeds generated by tariffs and on the tax on whiskey.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

“The main thing is just not to starve to death,” one video blogger advised in a post detailing how she subsisted on snack samples and free meals from temples and student canteens.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024

In the end the team - who subsisted on water, chocolate and sattu, a mixture of chickpea, barley and wheat flour - retrieved four bodies.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2024

He subsisted exclusively on rice and eagles’ blood, in a tiny cottage with an underground gymnasium and shooting range, on the stormy coast of Tibet.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger

"People are probably subsisting on 1,000 or 1,500 calories a day, and are not able to get basic healthcare," he said.

From BBC ● May 21, 2026

Aguilar, who has two young daughters, says his family is subsisting on food banks and relies on donations for rent.

From Salon ● May 2, 2026

There were stories of athletes living in their cars and subsisting on food stamps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2024

Less than two years ago, Brittney Griner was starting her nine-year sentence in a penal colony in Russia, sewing uniforms for the Russian military and subsisting on spoiled food.

From New York Times ● May 3, 2024

Since they’d rescued him from the bronze jar in Rome, Nico had slept very little and eaten even less, as if he were still subsisting on those emergency pomegranate seeds from the Underworld.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan