How to Use subsistence in a Sentence

subsistence

noun

• Farming is their means of subsistence.
• They depended on hunting and fishing for subsistence.
• In the mid-1990s a couple of green sturgeon were caught in a subsistence net on the Naknek beach.
  — John Schandelmeier, Alaska Dispatch News, 29 June 2017
• Fifty-six percent of the statewide subsistence harvest is made up of fish.
  — Paige Vega, Vox, 3 July 2024
• The fish are important to the tribes for subsistence and as a vital part of their culture.
  — Kale Williams, OregonLive.com, 25 May 2018
• Grove said at least 20 others are doing the same thing, to keep the subsistence funds flowing to those out of work.
  — Editorial Board Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 11 Dec. 2020
• Bristol Bay hosts the largest wild salmon run in the world, and tens of thousands of Alaskans rely on these fish for subsistence and jobs.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 3 Oct. 2020
• Guns are a part of Alaska’s culture and a core tool of a subsistence lifestyle.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2022
• But its purpose was recreation, not subsistence, and it was made for the benefit of the middle class, not the poor.
  — Eula Biss, The New Yorker, 8 June 2022
• One of the park’s purposes is to preserve the land and wildlife for Alaska Native subsistence use.
  — Jenna Schnuer, National Geographic, 10 June 2020
• The filling of cheese and bread crumbs also reflects an area in which sheep rearing was the main form of subsistence for centuries.
  — Rachel Roddy, New York Times, 13 May 2024
• In the meantime, subsistence foods are stored in three 40-foot village freezer vans.
  — Author: Rachel D'oro, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Nov. 2019
• In the United States, before 1865, the business of farming was, for the most part, a subsistence existence.
  — Kevin Dayhoff, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 31 July 2021
• In turn, the waters are home to more than 900 species of fish, essential to both local subsistence and the Guyanese economy.
  — Antonia Juhasz, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2022
• Son of subsistence farmers from one of the poorest regions of one of the poorest nations in the Western Hemisphere.
  — Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2021
• Its three schools now operate on a subsistence calendar, where students take time off in spring to hunt birds and in the fall to hunt moose.
  — Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2023
• The idea is that these people should work in order to work, with something like subsistence as a side benefit.
  — Marilynne Robinson, The New York Review of Books, 11 June 2020
• Brand gives the example of TIST’s tree planting on subsistence farms.
  — Natasha Frost, Quartz, 15 Jan. 2020
• If wages rose above subsistence, this would plunge the whole system into ruin.
  — Marilynne Robinson, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• Worl highlighted how the fish is a source of pride for the people in Alaska who engage in subsistence living.
  — Sophia Carlisle, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Mar. 2023
• In 2014 a complete ban was placed on all fishing for kings, subsistence included, on both sides of the border.
  — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2018
• The tusks were purchased from Inuit subsistence hunters.
  — Sara Tabin, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2021
• In the 1980s, a subsistence hunter caught three unusual-looking whales in Greenland’s Disko Bay.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 20 June 2019
• The move could result in the loss of subsistence benefits for as many as four million poor, single adults over the next few years, experts say.
  — Glenn Thrush, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2018
• Most Kanaks subsistence-farm yams, taros, sweet potatoes and bananas.
  — A. Odysseus Patrick, Washington Post, 1 June 2018
• Just when the grimness of Damani’s subsistence threatens to sink her and the reader, the archetypal Good Thing happens.
  — Meredith Maran, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2023
• Most residents of the area are subsistence farmers who see the four-lane road as a luxury for rich people.
  — Jake Maxwell Watts, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2018
• But the habitat loss and subsistence-hunting made the last native elk disappear by around 1900.
  — Tom Carpenter, Outdoor Life, 21 Oct. 2020
• This would have dire implications for ocean health, subsistence fisheries and tourism.
  — Reuters, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024
• As of last November, 40.4 million people in China were covered by subsistence allowances.
  — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 26 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024