Sentence examples for is subsisting from inspiring English sources
verb
To survive on a minimum of resources.
"Perhaps Nick is subsisting on smugness".
But the family is subsisting rather than living.
One put me in touch with a friend, Laura McElroy, who is subsisting for three weeks on just water.
The whole family is subsisting on the dwindling profits of a family business being crushed by ruthless competition from Angelique, now a spiteful businesswoman.
President Obama's auto task force said Monday it had "made no final decision" on future investments in G.M., which is subsisting on $15.4 billion in federal loans.
The town still has electricity and water but is subsisting largely on canned food smuggled in from Lebanon with the help of the Local Coordinating Committees, a network of rebel councils, he said.
At the end of the Ramayana, a golden image of Sita is subsisted for the real Sita to be on side of Rama in sacrifices, after Sita's abandonment by Rama when her chastity is questioned by his subjects.
She's subsisting on cereal!
The previous week, she had been subsisting mainly on grapefruit juice.
Frank Costa and Derek Hedbany, 18-year-old freshman roommates at New York University, were subsisting on adrenaline and _________.
Instead, they are subsisting on a diet of television shows and movies from the Internet.
