Sentence examples for subsisted for from inspiring English sources
Languid and thin, Mr. Pham said he subsisted for a time on nothing.
He is an advocate of fasting and said he once subsisted for 28 days on nothing but water and green tea.
He looked like a man who had subsisted, for a very long time, on a strict diet of the feelings of children.
Named "Marapikurrinya" by the local Aboriginal people, it subsisted for years on wool exports and a few pearls gathered from oysters at low tide.
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.
Their predecessors — the Hohokam people, irrigation farmers who subsisted for over a thousand years around a vast canal network in the Phoenix Basin — faced a similar test, and ultimately failed.
One put me in touch with a friend, Laura McElroy, who is subsisting for three weeks on just water.
Subsisting for the most part on seeds, buds, leaves, and fruits, foods of low protein content and nutritive value, pigeons must consume large quantities during each feeding day.
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.
They mature into adults once they reach the small intestine, where they can subsist for years by latching onto the intestinal wall and siphoning off blood.
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.
