Sentence examples for sustained themselves from inspiring English sources

Many entrepreneurs sustained themselves by part-time consulting.

Landladies, enslaved washerwomen, shopkeepers, and hucksters sustained themselves by serving the mobile population.

But Maoist bands have sometimes sustained themselves by demanding bribes from the mining operations.

We sat down to the leisurely dismemberment of lobsters; the flames sustained themselves throughout.

They sustained themselves on crabs from the sea and wondered when or if they would ever reach America.

Mr. Obama was seeing the same thing in public housing projects where poor residents sustained themselves through sheer belief.

Recent events raise another issue: technology companies have not done well in sustaining themselves when their founders leave.

"Our towns and cities cannot sustain themselves".

How do such populations sustain themselves?

How are global fishing fleets sustaining themselves?

"They won't be able to sustain themselves.