sustenance
Example Sentences
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On the ground level, this means community volunteer efforts like neighborhood environmental cleanups, helping food pantries distribute sustenance to families in need and volunteers assisting underfunded local libraries.
From Salon
His art would ever after draw sustenance from the region’s forms, practices and traditions.
It often took all day to create every meal from scratch, laboring in a hot kitchen to cook enough sustenance to support dawn- to-dusk physical labor.
From Literature
In a story built on hubris, violence and scientific ambition, it’s the smallest gestures of sustenance that feel the most human.
From Salon
This pure and balanced duet of meat and drink echoes Hemingway’s sentiment that food isn’t mere sustenance.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
