subsisting

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

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

He worked the tinted pools, going from subsisting like his parents and grandparents to saving.

With Gaza’s economy decimated, few Palestinians have regular incomes and most are either depleting their savings or subsisting on handouts.

It turns out that the players being labeled as amateurs and treated like normal students who are subsisting on ramen noodles were not the reason folks tuned in on Saturdays.