Sustaining can be categorized as a verb.
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| sustain - supply with necessities and support; "She alone sustained her family"; "The money will sustain our good cause"; "There's little to earn and many to keep" | ||
| sustain - admit as valid; "The court sustained the motion" | ||
| sustain - establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; "his story confirmed my doubts"; "The evidence supports the defendant" | ||
| sustain - be the physical support of; carry the weight of; "The beam holds up the roof"; "He supported me with one hand while I balanced on the beam"; "What's holding that mirror?" | ||
| sustain - provide with nourishment; "We sustained ourselves on bread and water"; "This kind of food is not nourishing for young children" | ||
| sustain - lengthen or extend in duration or space; "We sustained the diplomatic negotiations as long as possible"; "prolong the treatment of the patient"; "keep up the good work" | ||
| sustain - undergo (as of injuries and illnesses); "She suffered a fracture in the accident"; "He had an insulin shock after eating three candy bars"; "She got a bruise on her leg"; "He got his arm broken in the scuffle" |
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| 1. | verb | I had a sustaining breakfast. | |
| 2. | verb | Especially over the last 20 years, the purported link between progressive welfare policies and economic failure in the Northern European countries seems to point to the difficulty of sustaining both full social welfare and international competitivity. | |
| 3. | verb | We are soldiers in France, and we are citizens. Another reason to be proud, to be a citizen! For the poor, this consists in sustaining and preserving the wealthy in their power and their idleness. The poor must work there, before the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the wealthy and the poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread. That is one of the good effects of the Revolution. | |
| 4. | verb | The money will sustain our good cause. | |
| 5. | verb | His one-day mission vaulted his communist homeland into the elite circle of spacefaring nations - Russia and the United States - that can launch and sustain humans in space. | |
| 6. | verb | The bridge couldn't sustain the force of the strong current and collapsed. | |
| 7. | verb | Heavy posts are needed to sustain this bridge. | |
| 8. | verb | I sustain my family. | |
| 9. | verb | Time and space are one body, mind and things sustain each other. | |
| 10. | verb | Even thin sheets of Americium-241 can sustain a chain reaction. | |
| 11. | verb | So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning. | |
| 12. | verb | The liberty of a democracy is not safe if its business system does not provide employment and produce and distribute goods in such a way as to sustain an acceptable standard of living. | |
| 13. | verb | You take my house when you do take the prop, that doth sustain my house; you take my life, when you do take the means whereby I live. | |
| 14. | verb | We’re a nation that believes freedom can never be taken for granted and that each of us has a responsibility to sustain it. | |
| 15. | verb | We know we can't sustain that. |
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| I had a sustaining breakfast. | |
| Especially over the last 20 years, the purported link between progressive welfare policies and economic failure in the Northern European countries seems to point to the difficulty of sustaining both full social welfare and international competitivity. | |
| We are soldiers in France, and we are citizens. Another reason to be proud, to be a citizen! For the poor, this consists in sustaining and preserving the wealthy in their power and their idleness. The poor must work there, before the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the wealthy and the poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread. That is one of the good effects of the Revolution. | |
| The money will sustain our good cause. |
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| His one-day mission vaulted his communist homeland into the elite circle of spacefaring nations - Russia and the United States - that can launch and sustain humans in space. |
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| The bridge couldn't sustain the force of the strong current and collapsed. | |
| Heavy posts are needed to sustain this bridge. | |
| I sustain my family. | |
| Time and space are one body, mind and things sustain each other. | |
| Even thin sheets of Americium-241 can sustain a chain reaction. | |
| So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning. | |
| The liberty of a democracy is not safe if its business system does not provide employment and produce and distribute goods in such a way as to sustain an acceptable standard of living. | |
| You take my house when you do take the prop, that doth sustain my house; you take my life, when you do take the means whereby I live. | |
| We’re a nation that believes freedom can never be taken for granted and that each of us has a responsibility to sustain it. | |
| We know we can't sustain that. | |