Sentence examples for can subsist from inspiring English sources

After a fire, a wombat can subsist on roots and bark until the grass regrows.

Love for another person can subsist on fantasy a long time.

Some prospects can subsist on large signing bonuses and seem pampered as they are shepherded toward their big-league clubs.

Ferrets can subsist on a diet of water and meat similar to that given the domestic cat.

It drinks when water is available but can subsist indefinitely on browse with a water content of at least 10 percent.

In midwinter it can subsist entirely on clover leaves and spends 95 percent of the day collecting the leaf fragments at 60 100 pecks per minute.

They mature into adults once they reach the small intestine, where they can subsist for years by latching onto the intestinal wall and siphoning off blood.

They can subsist on beetles, perform Houdini-worthy stunts underwater and snip open a climber's chest cavity to repair a larynx at 12,000 feet.

The researchers, led by George M. Church, a geneticist at Harvard Medical School, found hundreds of bacteria that can subsist on antibiotics as their sole source of carbon.

Enter the Burmese python, perhaps the ultimate binge eater, which can subsist for up to a year on one meal -- a large mammal that it swallows whole.

It defines the zero level of human existence, how much human beings can be stripped of, how little they can subsist on and remain human.