Sentence examples for a subsistence from inspiring English sources

Farming was generally of a subsistence character.

Her father was a subsistence farmer.

"The job here was on a subsistence salary," he said.

Tomatoes, coconuts, pineapple, and fish support a subsistence economy.

Nelson was a subsistence athlete, living from meeting to meeting.

'You don't want to be a subsistence rice farmer.

But this does sort of sound like a subsistence culture in northern Europe.

"When I cough, my chest is very painful," says Eremu, a subsistence farmer.

"A cow gives milk and a chicken lays eggs," explained José Mata, a subsistence farmer here.

A workweek tends to run seven days and yields a subsistence wage.

Simon Edessou, 65, a subsistence farmer, cuts an unlikely figure as a saviour of African babies.