sustain

[səˈsteɪn]

Definition:
1. Lengthen or extend in duration or space.
2. To provide enough of what something needs in order to live or exist.
3. Provide with nourishment.

Use 'sustain' in a sentence:

1. Group exercise is one of the most effective ways to sustain a healthy lifestyle.
2. The problem is that such an impulse is hard to sustain.
3. Four police officers sustained serious injuries in the explosion.
4. There's a sufficiency of drama in these lives to sustain your interest.
5. She managed to sustain everyone's interest until the end of her speech.
6. As the honeybee's stinger is heavily barbed, staying where it is inserted, this results in the act of stinging causing the bee to sustain a fatal injury.
7. The parameters within which life can be sustained on Earth are extraordinarily narrow.
8. Their defense markets are too small to sustain economically viable production runs.
9. Silybum marianum has an obvious function to protect and sustain liver cell membrane.
10. The answer is that the economic indicators have a basic fault: they show no difference between resource uses that sustain progress and those uses that will hurt it.
11. The most loyal customers would still get the product they favor, the idea goes, and they'd feel like they were helping sustain the quality of something they believe in.
12. The idea is that we are taking more out of what you might call the planet's environmental bank balance than it can sustain; we are living beyond our ecological means.
13. Somehow, we have got to sustain that.
14. The cash dividends they get from the cash crop would sustain them during the lean season.
15. He was sustained by the unflagging support of his family.
16. At least one-third of all women over ninety have sustained a hip fracture.
17. Silybum marianum has an obvious function to protect and sustain liver cell membrane, which can be used for many diseases.
18. To compete effectively in international markets, a nation's businesses must sustain investment in intangible as well as physical assets.
19. But he has sustained his fierce social conscience from young adulthood through old age.
20. It was these conditions that allowed an elite to emerge, probably as an organizing class, and to sustain itself through the control of surplus crops.
21. The food supplies necessary to sustain the large vent communities, however, must be many times the ordinary fallout.
22. I am sustained by letters of support and what people say to me in ordinary daily life.
23. A "town of culture" could be not just about the arts but about honouring a town's peculiarities—helping sustain its high street, supporting local facilities and above all celebrating its people.
24. Sustained by this wonderful breakfast, it was with restored morale that we re-boarded our plane.
25. The problem was how to get enough food to sustain life.
26. We don't have the confidence that the UN will carry through a sustained program.
27. The people who sustain the worst losses are usually those who overreach.
28. It would be futile to sustain his life when there is no chance of any improvement.
29. This allows them to produce massive crops of fruit, flowers and foliage that sustain much of the animal life in the forest.
30. For a start, they sustain countless other species.
31. Your anxiety is a learned reaction, and it is nurtured and sustained by the events of your everyday life.
32. How such extensive damage could have been sustained so quickly remains unexplained.
33. The pillars sustain the roof of the pit.
34. Alaska regularly deposits some of its profits from the sale of oil into a special fund, with the intention to sustain the state's economy after the exhaustion of its oil reserves.
35. The company sustained losses of millions of dollars.
36. The north cannot achieve sustained economic development without the south, he added in his closing remarks.
37. He sustained serious neck injuries after he broke someone's fall.
38. America has enough firepower in the area to mount sustained air strikes.
39. 'I very much regret the injuries he sustained,' he said.
40. Some of those small mammals help to sustain such big birds as golden eagles.
41. Some of her clients' sales have declined, but she's found new clients and improved efficiencies to help sustain the company's double-digit growth.
42. It takes a great deal of effort to sustain.
43. The goal has been to establish and sustain a nation of viable family farms.
44. When our Sun later became hotter, the continued removal of atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane by early bacteria kept Earth's climate from becoming too hot to sustain life.
45. Managers usually love people who can self-sustain and enable growth through taking initiative, who are strong at following through their work, and who bring ideas and solutions to the table.
46. These should be the area of concentration for researchers to locate and protect those regions as a way to sustain coral reefs.
47. Every aircraft in there has sustained some damage.
48. The evidence is not detailed enough to sustain his argument.
49. Which planets can sustain life?
50. Speakers may be unable to sustain speech to complete the task and may rely heavily on repetition of the prompt.
51. I've never done any sustained writing, but that might be one of my next directions.
52. The love and support of his family sustained him during his time in prison.
53. He appeared embarrassed and ill at ease with the sustained applause that greeted him.
54. The ice will not sustain your weight.
55. Now the cheers and applause mingled in a single sustained roar.