Sentence examples for were subsisting from inspiring English sources
verb
To survive on a minimum of resources.
Frank Costa and Derek Hedbany, 18-year-old freshman roommates at New York University, were subsisting on adrenaline and _________.
Registered unemployment hovered at less than 500,000, but this figure concealed the fact that many urban workers were subsisting on family farms owned by relatives.
Of these, a million were subsisting on half that or less, which Professor Mollenkopf said "is just about destitution, I would say".
Almost all the children had at least one living parent in Sierra Leone, but their parents were subsisting on rations in the amputee camp.
This forced him to obtain more energy-dense foods than his fellow-primates were subsisting on, which put a premium on adding further brain power.
Frank Costa and Derek Hedbany, 18-year-old freshman roommates at New York University, were subsisting on adrenaline and Red Bull.
She's subsisting on cereal!
"Perhaps Nick is subsisting on smugness".
But the family is subsisting rather than living.
The previous week, she had been subsisting mainly on grapefruit juice.
Instead, they are subsisting on a diet of television shows and movies from the Internet.
