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When you spent all your savings to move to London, how did you subsist as a young girl with no English in a foreign land?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 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

Among other problems, most had small seeds—imagine trying to feed a family on sesame seeds, and you have some idea of what it would have been like to subsist on maygrass.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

He is sleep-deprived because the lights in his cell are kept on all the time, and he subsists mostly on a diet of stale tortillas, he told them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2022

His cheeks are so hollowed and pitted, he looks like he subsists entirely on turnips.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

It introduces us to Chinese villagers 10,000 years ago who subsisted on a mélange of acorns, berries, deer and pigs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

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

The population subsisted on an average of 1,200 calories a day.

From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2025

“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

Their mounts subsisted on the tough brown devilgrass that grew in dumps at the base of rocks and dead trees.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

Maekar recoils at the thought of a child of royal birth subsisting on salted beef.

From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2026

Less than two years ago, the W.N.B.A. star 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 2, 2024

Chavez, who had lost 35 pounds after subsisting only on water, was too weak to speak.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2024

So far, they had been subsisting on snacks sent through a narrower pipe inserted earlier.

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2023

As if merely subsisting according to his self-imposed rules weren’t strenuous enough, Rosellini also exercised compulsively whenever he wasn’t occupied with foraging.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer