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"Sustain" in a Sentence (26 examples)
The bridge couldn't sustain the force of the strong current and collapsed.
Heavy posts are needed to sustain this bridge.
I sustain my family.
Time and space are one body, mind and things sustain each other.
Even thin sheets of Americium-241 can sustain a chain reaction.
So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if its business system does not provide employment and produce and distribute goods in such a way as to sustain an acceptable standard of living.
You take my house when you do take the prop, that doth sustain my house; you take my life, when you do take the means whereby I live.
We’re a nation that believes freedom can never be taken for granted and that each of us has a responsibility to sustain it.
We know we can't sustain that.
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The professor had trouble sustaining students’ interest until the end of her lectures.
The city came under sustained attack by enemy forces.
Sam managed to sustain his erection for two straight hours.
All the beliefs, habits, tastes, emotions, mental attitudes that characterize our time are really designed to sustain the mystique of the Party and prevent the true nature of present-day society from being perceived.
provisions to sustain an army
Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.
We rode five farsakhs today, sustained by a single bowl of curds and tortured by the wooden saddles.
The building sustained major damage in the earthquake.
[…] if you omit The offer of this time, I cannot promise But that you shall sustain moe new disgraces, With these you bear already.
Shall Turnus then such endless Toil sustain, In fighting Fields, and conquer Towns in vain:
to sustain a charge, an accusation, or a proposition
After the vote is taken, the Chairman states that the decision of the Chair is sustained, or reversed, as the case may be.
A foundation sustains the superstructure; an animal sustains a load; a rope sustains a weight.
When I desir’d their leave that I might pity him, they took from me the use of mine own house, charg’d me on pain of perpetual displeasure neither to speak of him, entreat for him, nor any way sustain him.
His Sons, who seek the Tyrant to sustain, And long for Arbitrary Lords again,
To call this music bland is to ignore the down-the-drain vocal fade-aways, the extended sax sustains […]
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