How to Use life-sustaining in a Sentence

life-sustaining

adjective

• Some things in the universe shine with a constant, life-sustaining light.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 20 July 2023
• The doctor removes the life-sustaining equipment and waits.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 28 Oct. 2024
• 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 were people to come and give them life-sustaining materials such as food and water.
  — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 19 Oct. 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
• The annual flooding brought silt and fertile soil to parts of the desert, an essential and life-sustaining tradition the Egyptians counted on every year.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 18 July 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
• Friends, neighbors and strangers extend support, from warm embraces to donations of food, blankets and other life-sustaining goods.
  — Julie Garel, Baltimore Sun, 25 July 2024
• The origin of magnetism is key because magnetic fields, like the one surrounding Earth, can protect and shield a life-sustaining atmosphere.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 25 Sep. 2024
• Together our work shows how a particular type of condensate forms in cells with a life-sustaining function.
  — Trevor Grandpre, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2024
• 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
• But Wright and other patients reliant on insulin fear drug companies' attention to the profitable blockbuster meds comes at the expense of a life-sustaining drug that's been around for more than a century.
  — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024
• Much as our blood vessels send life-sustaining fluid throughout our bodies, these tunnels convey the precious water that sustains all life in this region.
  — Martin Broen, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Oct. 2024
• The seawater gets heated by the magma, which sends it shooting back up into the deep ocean, along with a wealth of life-sustaining minerals that support a whole ecosystem of organisms in proximity to the vents.
  — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
• 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
• If that doesn't come through, the agency will ensure resources are available to support ongoing lifesaving and life-sustaining activities.
  — Shruti Date Singh Bloomberg News (wpns), arkansasonline.com, 13 July 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 12 Feb 2025