Sentence examples for had subsisted for from inspiring English sources

He looked like a man who had subsisted, for a very long time, on a strict diet of the feelings of children.

The family had subsisted for a while with "no earnings, no help from family or friends, and not a single dollar from welfare", says Edin, only food stamps.

What makes you think you can do it?" This was the late '80s, and the vast majority in our community were first-generation refugees, many of them boat people who had subsisted for years in refugee camps in Southeast Asia.

At the time of his marriage, he was completing a new play, The Elder Statesman, in which a very senior public figure is compared to a silkworm who has subsisted for years on very bitter mulberry leaves.

Landowners along the road's path, who have subsisted for years on their tiny shops, now face the prospect of instant wealth as the city is expected to pay top yen for land.

The subjects of this documentary, which runs nearly two hours and opens today at the Film Forum, are the members of a nomadic Tibetan tribe that has subsisted for centuries by extracting salt from a group of remote holy lakes in northern Tibet and trading it for grain.

While numerous pastoral cultures have subsisted for thousands of years and continue to survive today, nearly all are facing great difficulties as the world's rangelands deteriorate.

What if they weren't any good as live performers after having subsisted for so many years in mothballs?

The transition of people who have subsisted for generations on rain-fed lands to irrigated farming may be a difficult social change.

Fresh fruits and vegetables began appearing in their refrigerator, replacing the fatty discount chicken, and the canned and frozen food they had subsisted on for years.

For a guy who had subsisted on little more than refined sugars and THC for the day, I was kicking ass!