Sentence examples for subsisting for from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

After subsisting for three months on a marginal diet of squirrels, porcupines, small birds, mushrooms, roots, and berries, he'd run up a huge caloric deficit and was teetering on the brink.

Instead, he took a more drastic approach: he tried the "master cleanse," a fast that requires subsisting for 10 or more days solely on an elixir of fresh-squeezed lemon juice, cayenne pepper, maple syrup and water.

Fawcett survived in the jungle for years at a time, without contact with the outside world, often subsisting for days on a handful of nuts; he was ambushed by hostile tribesmen, many of whom had never seen a white man before; he emerged with maps of regions from which no expedition had returned.

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

14.2 (1) Moral rights in respect of a work subsist for the same term as the copyright in the work.

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

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.

He is an advocate of fasting and said he once subsisted for 28 days on nothing but water and green tea.