Sentence examples for subsist for a from inspiring English sources

When they handed over their guns, the ex-fighters each received a lump sum of 300,000 leones ($150) to help them subsist for a few months.

All batrachians, however, can subsist for a long time without food, and grow little during this fast; they seek shelter under damp wood, stones, or other cover; they practically aestivate, a summer slumber similar to hibernation.

If the glucose concentration in regions distal to the blood supply remains adequate, some cells can subsist for a short period by utilizing glycolysis to produce ATP in the absence of oxygen (Freyer and Sutherland, 1985; Dewhirst et al, 1994).

Languid and thin, Mr. Pham said he subsisted for a time on nothing.

Russell, Doris and their mother moved to Baltimore in the mid-1930s and subsisted for a time on government-surplus food.

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.

Three weeks ago, two city-bred, upper-class aspiring entrepreneurs from Bangalore embarked on a mission: learn more about India, by subsisting for a month on what the average Indian does – just 100 rupees ($2.04) a day.

The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now moulds a horse, and when it has broken this up, it uses the material for a tree, then for a man, then for something else; and each of these things subsists for a very short time.

I subsisted for an entire year of college on lettuce, nonfat yogurt, pickles, an overpriced and hard-to-find kind of low-calorie noodle, and baroque puddings involving canned pumpkin and expired spices.

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.