How to Use life-sustaining in a Sentence

life-sustaining

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• Some things in the universe shine with a constant, life-sustaining light.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 20 July 2023
• Year after year after year the life-sustaining seasonal rains in the Horn of Africa have simply failed to fall.
  — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 27 Apr. 2023
• Such events can also highlight the inequities of the life-sustaining resource.
  — Ines De La Cuetara, ABC News, 8 July 2023
• Still, the life-sustaining medicine can be an exorbitant cost.
  — Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2024
• There was some evidence that forced treatment could be life-sustaining in the short term, but its long-term effects were more uncertain.
  — Katie Engelhart, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2024
• In 1990, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of her parents, affirming the constitutional right to refuse life-sustaining treatment.
  — Joseph J. Fins, STAT, 29 Aug. 2023
• The parks become more crowded from Memorial Day on, when the coast redwoods are shrouded in life-sustaining fog, and inland conditions are warm and sunny.
  — Jill K. Robinson, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Mar. 2023
• With more than a year left to go before reaching their target planet, a lack of life-sustaining supplies and loss of leadership, the remaining crew has to figure out a way to survive and stay on course.
  — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Apr. 2023
• Unlike most pine trees, which have three needles in each sheath, or bundle, Torrey pines produce five long needles, an adaptation to the desert climate to draw in more life-sustaining moisture from fog and dew.
  — Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2023
• With more than a year left to go before reaching their target planet, a lack of life-sustaining supplies and loss of leadership, the remaining crew must become the best versions of themselves to stay on course and survive.
  — Breanna Bell, Variety, 12 Apr. 2023
• Truly life-sustaining recoveries would emphasize all the spheres of eco-swaraj, arrived at via four pathways.
  — Ashish Kothari, Scientific American, 1 June 2021
• Salmon advocates insist dams are operated in ways that harm Chinook salmon by denying them life-sustaining flows of cold water.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• Joshua was placed under his father’s care following his release from the hospital and was required to stay hooked up to life-sustaining medical equipment, the documents state.
  — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 11 Aug. 2023
• Households will go without life-sustaining necessities such as food, medicine and medical care to pay their energy bills.
  — Joie D. Acosta, Baltimore Sun, 26 Mar. 2024
• What the books do show is how these two major news organizations managed to pivot to life-sustaining digital subscriptions while much of the local news landscape lay in ruins.
  — Julia M. Klein, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• Embracing ambiguity may well be as life-sustaining as raw almonds and SPF.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2024
• And some humanitarian groups have scaled back their life-sustaining efforts.
  — Brian MacQuarrie, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
• As the only sources of freshwater in Mexico’s Yucatán state, cenotes were both life-sustaining and spiritually significant for the Maya.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 July 2023
• The new law additionally requires hospitals to track and report to the Health and Human Services Commission when doctors are withdrawing life-sustaining care.
  — Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 30 Aug. 2023
• This information is important for your doctor to know because the placenta provides your baby with life-sustaining oxygen.
  — Nancy Gottesman, Parents, 14 July 2023
• At this point, most of us know that narrative to be outrageously simplistic if not downright false — if the Natives really did provide pilgrims with life-sustaining food, their generosity was repaid with genocide and theft.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 21 Apr. 2023
• Rebecca Gilman sees a lot of metaphors in the prairie, an ecosystem that may seem unruly and unproductive at first glance but follows its own delicate laws and maintains a network of life-sustaining biological relationships.
  — In Swing State, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2023
• In other words, hibernation allows animals to stretch their fat reserves farther by reducing their body’s temperature and life-sustaining processes to a minimum.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
• This male individual has selected a small cylindrical container, likely filled with life-sustaining H2O, and is tilting it expertly towards his intake orifice.
  — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 16 Nov. 2023
• In a study published recently in the journal Nature, scientists concluded that tropical forests could be drawing closer to the temperature threshold where leaves lose the ability to create life-sustaining energy by combining CO2, water and sunlight.
  — Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2023
• Solar-plus-storage systems can help people keep cool during dangerous heat waves, ensure life-sustaining medical equipment stays powered and prevent refrigerated food from spoiling.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023

Last Updated: 21 Oct 2024