How to Use subsist in a Sentence

subsist

verb

• The author's right to royalties shall subsist for the term of the copyright.
• To reduce weight, the crew subsists on freeze dried food.
  — Time, 16 Feb. 2018
• Russell’s game subsists on handling the ball at the top of the key and running pick-and-rolls.
  — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 1 July 2019
• Kajokaya said this jump in food costs forces many people to subsist on just one meal a day.
  — Ryan Bergeron, CNN, 3 Aug. 2022
• The larvae take two years to mature and subsist on sedges and grasses, while the adults sip nectar.
  — Andrew Warren, National Geographic, 16 Mar. 2016
• The breakdowns still came, but not to an extent that Boston could subsist on them.
  — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 20 May 2018
• People who were forced by debt to live in the poorhouse had to subsist on six and half pounds a year, paid from parish taxes.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2020
• If the contact isn’t emphatic or the ball is hit at people, Colon can subsist.
  — Mark Bradley, ajc, 4 May 2017
• They are adept at climbing and can chew and claw through a host of materials, and can subsist on garbage.
  — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Dec. 2022
• The house subsists on grants, resident fees of $150 a week and donations.
  — Arelis R. Hernández, Washington Post, 5 July 2017
• Those prices are roughly in line with global standards but still out of reach for many Cubans who subsist on state salaries of about $30 a month.
  — Andrea Rodriguez, The Seattle Times, 5 Dec. 2018
• Nature programs love to point in amazement to the fact that the largest animals on the planet subsist on some of the smallest, namely the krill.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 20 Apr. 2018
• The catch: a 36-foot, 1-inch, young male bowhead that community members will subsist on over the next year.
  — Jenna Kunze, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Sep. 2020
• Mendoza and her team compared the DNA and microbiomes of three species of vampire bats to those of bats that subsist on insects, fruit or meat.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 24 Feb. 2018
• In Lynch's versions, the evil Harkonnen clan appears to subsist on bloodlike purple juice that flows through the veins of their minions.
  — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 16 Sep. 2021
• The patient was mostly subsisting on french fries, Pringles, white bread, ham and sausage, according to the case report.
  — Time, 3 Sep. 2019
• Also, sick in the tissue and in the head and subsisting only on small amounts of sugar, tons of caffeine and a purse pharmacy.
  — Blake Bakkila, Health.com, 10 July 2018
• For the nearly 35% of the workforce that subsists on freelance income, taxes can be extra tricky.
  — Josh Smith, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2018
• Most attendees did not much care, subsisting in the club’s smoky kaleidoscope of flesh.
  — Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2018
• In the wake of these legal costs, Theranos has been subsisting on a loan backed by its patent portfolio since late last year.
  — Christopher Weaver, WSJ, 22 July 2018
• Mr Romano of Nestlé says that Latin American ones used to subsist largely on table scraps, but no longer.
  — The Economist, 22 June 2019
• Unable to chew, Wadsack mostly subsists on smoothies and purees these days.
  — Jocelyn Wiener, sacbee, 8 June 2017
• In Brooklyn, Russell was a ball-dominant point guard whose game subsisted on pick-and-rolls.
  — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 12 July 2019
• The country has a booming tech sector, but still half the nation subsists through agriculture.
  — Pradheep J. Shanker, National Review, 15 Aug. 2017
• Meanwhile, Eleven is hiding out in the woods and subsisting on Eggos left for her by Sheriff Hopper.
  — Eliza Thompson, Cosmopolitan, 13 Oct. 2017
• The area now houses strings of settlements of Syrian refugees, many of whom barely subsist.
  — Michael Kranish, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2017
• My abuelito subsisted on takeout and whatever the cousins could bring by.
  — Alejandra Borunda, Bon Appetit, 2 Oct. 2017
• The benefit of being a highly skilled worker is choice, options of where to work and live—that’s the point of subsisting on Soylent and blood boys and four hours of nightly sleep.
  — Lisa Selin Davis, Curbed, 20 Nov. 2018
• For one thing, most of the players subsisted in a state of perpetual drunkenness worsened only by the lines of cocaine being doled out.
  — Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2023
• The ration books that allow Cubans to buy small quantities of basic goods like rice, beans, eggs, and sugar each month for payment equivalent to a few U.S. cents continue to be the basis of the model, allowing families to subsist for about 15 days.
  — Andrea Rodríguez, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 8 Oct 2024