Sentence examples for sustain almost from inspiring English sources

To sustain almost two decades as a creator among artisans is a mark of courage that makes him different from the rest.

Cautious and modest where George W. Bush was ambitious and brash, Mr. Obama still claims the authority necessary to sustain almost everything his predecessor did.

"New York has so shown its true grit," as a place that can sustain "almost whatever comes at it," she added, "so where else to put your money?" One agency's report, however, showed sales were down.

I still experience pain every day from the injuries I sustained almost 40 years ago on the field.

Mr. Keenan's sustained, almost androgynous voice hovers within the music, desolate but impervious to the tumult around him.

Yet staying in Tokyo, which sustained almost no damage and where life is disrupted but inching closer to normality, intensifies their sense of helplessness.

The backup tracks use sustained, almost viscous keyboard chords, like the slow passages of 1970's progressive rock, punctuated by sputters of bass drum.

His lifelong regret (regret is hope backward, and sustains almost as well) was failing to get rich at the building of the Suez Canal.

And the pianist, Mr. Lewis, thinks in sustained, almost trancelike ideas that go past their obvious stopping points, playing parallel-hands sections and burrowing into his own invented melodies.

Their work provides a detailed scientific analysis of the wreckage time's chariot leaves behind: The face alone sustains almost two dozen separate assaults, from sunken cheeks to larger ears (the cartilage actually grows).

The Penguins were without Sidney Crosby, who missed his 11th game with a concussion he sustained almost a month ago, and Evgeni Malkin, who missed his fourth game with a knee sprain and a sinus infection.