Sentence examples for subsisting for years from inspiring English sources

After subsisting for years on investments mostly from college professors and engineers, the Schoenwalds caught a big break in 2000 when the California electricity crisis drew mainstream attention to alternative energy.

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.

Named "Marapikurrinya" by the local Aboriginal people, it subsisted for years on wool exports and a few pearls gathered from oysters at low tide.

What makes you think you can do it?" This was the late '80s, and the vast majority in our community were first-generation refugees, many of them boat people who had subsisted for years in refugee camps in Southeast Asia.

Intriguingly, human E-cadherin-negative LCIS can subsist for years without regression or progression.

Fresh fruits and vegetables began appearing in their refrigerator, replacing the fatty discount chicken, and the canned and frozen food they had subsisted on for years.

And Buick dealers, who have subsisted on scraps for years, are well respected and savvy.

Some subsist in cramped quarters for years awaiting resettlement in another country.

For years I subsisted on little more than cigarettes and frozen grapes.

Villagers who cowered for years in camps, subsisting on food aid, have returned to their fields, sunk new wells to replace the ones the men with guns blew up, and started farming again.

They work for years on their Great Novel, probably subsisting on stale cheese and rats' milk as they do so, and what thanks do they get?