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subsist
verb as in keep going, living
Example Sentences
“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.
That was evident in their 17-15 loss to Arizona on Monday night, when they subsisted on five field goals from Cameron Dicker and consistently came up short in the red zone.
Instead, his family largely subsisted on bread, he said.
“But how long can California subsist — or help businesses and families thrive — on an ever-thinner slice of a shrinking production pie?”
With starting quarterbacks getting almost all the reps during practice each week, backups have to subsist mostly on scout team reps and film study.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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