Sentence examples for subsisted- from inspiring English sources

The Northern and Southern Paiute were traditionally hunting and gathering cultures that subsisted primarily on seed, pine nuts, and small game, although many Southern Paiute also planted small gardens.

The employees, who were often in debt (frequently to their employers), subsisted precariously from day to day, at the mercy of the trade cycle and the varying price of bread.

The household of 11 adults plus children subsisted on two goats a week, honey from a hive in the garden and Quaker Oats from a local shop.

As recently as the early 1990s many Chinese mostly subsisted on a diet of vegetables bought at street markets.For Mr Lei, as for many of his countrymen, the years of deprivation are well within living memory.

When Labour took over, more than 5m working-age adults subsisted on state benefits.

Please ReprintsThe Ogiek have subsisted peacefully for centuries, hunting tree hyrax (tasty small furry mammals, improbably related to elephants) and harvesting honey.

Moreover, many of the Syrian Armenians in Armenia have subsisted on their savings so far.

Many who subsisted on bitter wild oranges succumbed to cholera, malaria and dysentery.

One is that he was "living in adultery" with a woman "while his marriage to his lawful wife subsisted".

Gauchos subsisted largely on meat.

Many of the dispossessed took to the woods and subsisted by slash-and-burn tillage, while others emigrated to Manchuria and Japan in search of jobs; the majority of Korean residents now in those areas are their descendants.