Sentence examples for having to subsist from inspiring English sources
Assuming he could bring a shopkeeper to the ground floor, Mr. Dow figured he would be able to afford to buy the building without having to subsist on cornmeal.
During his childhood, Liddell experienced austerity and poverty, with his family often having to subsist on bread, kail, and salt porridge.
Page and Brin are pleasantly dishevelled workaholics who find it amazing that they don't have to subsist on burritos.
Zurbarán had to subsist ad hoc, often on commissions from religious orders that tethered him to pious subjects.
Foot soldiers (who actually fought barefoot) were subject to frequent beatings and had to subsist on meager rations, which were supposed to be supplemented "by foraging and stealing".
If it was too wet to light a fire, they had to subsist on hardtack biscuits and cold sowbelly doused in vinegar.
The fourth series of the US sitcom Modern Family begins on Sky1 tonight – fantastic news for fans who have had to subsist on repeats for the past few months.
"I sometimes think that Caroline Lucas won't be happy until every household in the UK has to subsist on an acre and a cow," he will say.
Famished prisoners had to subsist on handfuls of dry crackers and morsels of raw ham, and there were no beds, cots or blankets; most captives slept on the fort's cold bare floors.
More than half of the 1 billion people who live in poverty today are children; some 600m children and adolescents live in families that have to subsist on less than $1 a day.
