How to Use sustenance in a Sentence

sustenance

noun

• The village depends on the sea for sustenance.
• Tree bark provides deer with sustenance in periods of drought.
• She draws spiritual sustenance from daily church attendance.
• The birds get sustenance, and the berries get to disperse their seeds.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Aug. 2022
• The bar has a 20-foot screen and dozens more TVs across the space, plus food trucks for sustenance.
  — Emma Balter, Chron, 29 Nov. 2022
• If this class of drugs rewires our brains and guts to think of food as just sustenance, the world will be so sad.
  — Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2023
• The evacuees placed in them might even turn to them for sustenance.
  — Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2022
• The lack of food would drive up prices for what sustenance remains.
  — Alex Ward, Vox, 19 Oct. 2018
• The gift of hearty sustenance is ideal for the winter months ahead.
  — Naveen Kumar, CNN Underscored, 7 Dec. 2020
• Support the show and buy your sustenance from the vendors on-site, folks.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 3 July 2019
• The building in large part serves to provide sustenance to those in need.
  — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 27 Feb. 2021
• Shouldn’t food just be a source of sustenance and pleasure?
  — Michelle Stacey, Allure, 8 Aug. 2019
• Tune in with a glass of wine on May 6th, just in time for a little Mother’s Day soul sustenance.
  — Emerald Elitou, Essence, 2 May 2022
• To observe so soon into her life story that there is no sustenance in the past is to give the past an edge.
  — Hazlitt, 2 Oct. 2024
• That, the film suggests, keeps us alive in ways that go beyond sustenance.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2024
• The same fortitude that worked for her on the farm becomes her sustenance away from it.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 May 2018
• Music has been like food for me, like bread, like sustenance.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 30 Aug. 2022
• There’s a lot of protein for sustenance, and plenty of sugar for a quick rush.
  — Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2022
• But that’s the point, really, to find sustenance in what has always been true.
  — Yohanca Delgado, Time, 22 Jan. 2022
• The plant is the only host for their eggs and sole sustenance for the caterpillars, which feed on milky secretions from the leaves.
  — Calvin Woodward, Fox News, 31 July 2018
• Corn, beans and squash — along with wild game, strawberries and maple sap — were the main sustenance of the Mohawk people.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Nov. 2020
• Food, at its essence, is sustenance; that much is simple.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 8 July 2020
• After adult salmon have spawned and died off in the fall, the Yurok people rely on the long, ugly fish for sustenance in the winter months.
  — oregonlive, 17 June 2023
• Food is much more than sustenance that keeps people alive.
  — Sam Boyer, cleveland, 17 Mar. 2022
• The author sought sustenance in the language of music instead of words.
  — Michele Filgate, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2023
• Don’t cut down the fruit tree for a person is the fruit tree, depending upon it for sustenance.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Sep. 2019
• And that was the sum total of sustenance that was available to their family.
  — Eugene Scott, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2018
• Volunteers will deliver the sustenance to students on the day of the march.
  — Christina Zdanowicz, CNN, 22 Mar. 2018
• In this worldview, trees fight tooth and nail (or root and branch) to draw sustenance from the soil, collect rain and access sunlight.
  — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2021
• This was a home, this was sustenance and protection, on the floorboards, under the lights and with the full blast of love from several thousand people.
  — Rosanne Cash, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024