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• Infants generally subsist on a lactaceous diet.From the entry lactaceous
• As the name suggests, DAOs are autonomous entities that subsist independently from any legal or moral entity.2014 March 8, Primavera De Filippi, “Tomorrow's Apps Will Come From Brilliant (And Risky) Bitcoin Code”, in Wired, →ISSN. From the entry dao
• Clubgoers and jet-laggers, rejoice: you don't have to subsist on stale bar peanuts in Italy.2008 February, Italy, 8th edition, Footscray, Victoria: Lonely Planet Publications, →ISBN, page 74. From the entry jet-lagger
• Most of the game can still find enough old grass to subsist.1960 March, Henno Martin, “A Year of the Namib”, in Natural History, volume LXIX, page 61. From the entry superdry
• When food was scarce, the children would subsist on a lump of jaggery and one bajra roti each.2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 94. From the entry bajra
• The mantous had been a welcome change from the muei (Chinese porridge) on which they had been subsisting for so long.2017, Julia Lin, “Leaving Manchuria”, in Shadows of the Crimson Sun: One Man’s Life in Manchuria, Taiwan, and North America, Toronto…. From the entry mantou
• Food was scarce; sometimes they subsisted on bananas.2015, Adam Schatz, “Drawing Blood”, in The New Yorker, F-R Pub. Corp., page 60. From the entry Marge Simpson
• Certainly Fargesia sp. is an adequate food source, pandas in the Jiuzhaigou reserve and some other areas subsisting entirely on it.1985, George B. Schaller, Hu Jinchu, Pan Wenshi, Zhu Jing, The Giant Pandas of Wolong, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC…. From the entry Jiuzhaigou
• They shuffle through life now, subsisting mainly on television and gossip; gossip gone over and over again, miserlily.1961 April 1–3, John Fowles, “Childlessness”, in Charles Drazin, editor, The Journals, volumes I (1949–1965), New York, N.Y.: Alfred A.…. From the entry miserlily
• The gull subsists chiefly on limpets and other shell-bearing mollusks.1922 April, Robert Cushman Murphy, “South Georgia, An Outpost of the Antarctic”, in National Geographic, volume 41, number 4, page 429. From the entry break-bones
• It goes without saying that she knew nothing whatever of the bad relations subsisting between her father and her sweetheart.1913, Annabella Bruce Marchand, Dirk, a South African, page 198. From the entry capulet
• It is possible that in some of the untrotted islands of the South Seas an illusion of it still subsists.1906, Edgar Saltus, The Pomps of Satan, page 7. From the entry untrotted
• A kind of aural uncanny is produced, with classic pop ballads occurring in unexpected places and an unlocatable industrial hum subsisting with—or even muffling—dialogue.2008, Andrew Dix, Beginning Film Studies, Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 154. From the entry Lynchian
• Dala Kumara was seized by a deep passion; he carried his sister away to the forest and lived with her there, subsisting on wild foods.1996, Allen W. Johnson, Douglass Richard Price-Williams, Oedipus Ubiquitous: The Family Complex in World Folk Literature, →ISBN, page 188. From the entry brother-husband
• The fantastic flame scallops, Lima spp. are filter feeding clams that subsist, as most clams do, by feeding on bacteria, phytoplankton, dissolved organic material, and detritus in the water.2001, Julian Sprung, Invertebrates: A Quick Reference Guide, page 87. From the entry flame scallop
• The unhappy condition of the Bosnia and Herzegovinan Christians is caused in great measure by the nature of the relations subsisting between the rural population and the land owners.1968, “The Congress and the Treaty of Berlin”, in René Albrecht-Carrié, editor, The Concert of Europe (Documentary History of Western…. From the entry Bosnia and Herzegovinan
• Thus the industry in Massachusetts subsists on a constant influx of cloth and outgo of garments which pass through the hands of the stitching contractors for an essential operation.1949 March 28, Robert H[oughwout] Jackson, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States (delivering the court’s opinion), “United…. From the entry outgo

Meaning of subsist

1. verb To survive on a minimum of resources.
2. verb To have ontological reality; to exist.
3. verb To retain a certain state; to continue.

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How do you use subsist in a sentence?

Subsist is used as a verb. For example: “Infants generally subsist on a lactaceous diet.”

What is a short sentence with subsist?

“Infants generally subsist on a lactaceous diet.”

What does subsist mean?

Subsist means to survive on a minimum of resources.