Sentence examples for but subsisted from inspiring English sources

Apparently the monks of a certain Tibetan monastery, who ate no food but subsisted by opening their mouths for two hours each afternoon and sticking their tongues out to lap up sunlight, had their backs stabbed daily by Happi-Fork, which at the time was the tusk of a pet rhinoceros they'd trained to stab them.

The camps, though, all but subsist on the issue; the old now telling the young to take their bones back one day, the young brimming with anger.

A good working assumption, if you are a struggling young writer, dreaming of laurels but subsisting on lentils, is that those successful writers you envy are all off somewhere together, Champagne-drunk at a party to which your invitation has mysteriously not arrived.

He left after a year, empty-handed but subsisting on tech licenses and hardware sales.

Most of the population is engaged in subsistence farming, but barely subsisting.

Interestingly, the startup has not previously raised venture capital, but has instead subsisted on dollars won from startup competitions, which currently amounts to around $500,000.

But to subsist in bones, and be but Pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration.

This solid online program is free (but subsists on user contributions).

The "female Kafka," for instance, "is a rarely seen, wonderful moon-blue mouse, which eats no meat but subsists on bitter herbs.

But he subsists on a shaky network.

But they subsist on a self-reinforcing argument.