Sentence examples for the only sustenance from inspiring English sources

This was the only sustenance we were offered all week.

The only sustenance was coffee and biscuits, although some officials ordered pizzas.

Almost the only sustenance in Northern Europe came from roaming herds of mammoths, reindeer, bison and horses.

The only sustenance he had, he said, was a packet of white powder that he found wrapped in the blanket, which turned out to be methamphetamine.

Its sole inhabitant is a grizzled old hermit named Kanana (Peter Kubheka), and the only sustenance on hand (besides the Scotch the tourists have brought with them) is an ancient supply of spoiled tinned carrots.

I have found extraordinary testimony about the intimate management of family care: how the old negotiated with the young for what they called retirement, and the exertions of caregiving at a time when support by relatives was the only sustenance available for the old.

"People here have always had a strong bond to the land," Mr. Stitt said, "because for many years, after the Civil War and the Depression, the land was their only sustenance".

It was, for a long time, in spite of — or, not inconceivably because of — the shabbiness of my motives, my only sustenance, my meat and drink.

They are shown landing, taking off or clustering in the waves at high tide, always in search of the increasingly scarce eelgrass that is their only sustenance.

In addition to mice or rats, the only other sustenance a snake needs is fresh water.

It seems to be her only sustenance, so I was curious to get the skinny on what the Skinny One eats.