Sentence examples for subsisted by from inspiring English sources

Like many other desert peoples, the Ute traditionally subsisted by collecting wild foods.

He subsisted by pawning his few belongings and, according to legend, by eating sparrows trapped outside his attic window.

His father was a second-grade dropout who subsisted by tapping the surrounding pines for pitch to sell to turpentine mills, and by brewing moonshine.

He subsisted by tutoring, supplemented by a small grant from the University of Christiania and, beginning in 1828, by a temporary teaching position.

Most of the island's residents spoke only Gaelic and subsisted by growing potatoes, raising cattle and sheep, fishing, and collecting seaweed for fertilizer.

During World War II, she subsisted by milking the 30 cows on her family's land in Salzburg, making butter and peddling flowers at the local market, she said.

They figured that the demons would not be able to subsist by themselves.

Herbivorous nekton are not very common, although a few nearshore and shallow-water species subsist by grazing on plants.

The Tofalars, who subsist by herding reindeer and hunting for pelts, seem to have resisted Russia's demographic decline.

Among the worst affected are the Afars, a tough, gun-toting people who subsist by herding livestock in the arid vastness of north-eastern Ethiopia.

Indians, who subsist by hunting and gathering, live around the town; there is almost no industry, and rubber gathering is the principal economic activity.