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sustain English

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sustain

If something is sustained, it is maintained. I tried to sustain the energy level of the party by playing some rock music. To provide for or nourish (something). If something sustains (an injury etc.), it experiences or suffers (from an injury etc.). The soldier sustained multiple shots and carried on to kill the enemy troops.

sustain

(= prolong, keep up) lengthen or extend in duration or space We sustained the diplomatic negotiations as long as possible prolong the treatment of the patient keep up the good work (= suffer, have, get) undergo (as of injuries and illnesses) She suffered a fracture in the accident He had an insulin shock after eating three candy bars She got a bruise on her leg He got his arm broken in the scuffle (= keep) supply with necessities and support She alone sustained her family The money will sustain our good cause There's little to earn and many to keep (= nourish) provide with nourishment We sustained ourselves on bread and water This kind of food is not nourishing for young children admit as valid The court sustained the motion (= hold, support, hold up) be the physical support of; carry the weight of The beam holds up the roof He supported me with one hand while I balanced on the beam What's holding that mirror? (= confirm, support) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts his story confirmed my doubts The evidence supports the defendant

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sustain · verb

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Simple sentences

Heavy posts are needed to sustain this bridge.
I sustain my family.
You take my house when you do take the prop, that doth sustain my house; you take my life, when you do take the means whereby I live.

Movie subtitles

It can sustain significant parts being removed without losing fundamental functions.
Dr. Seward, your patient Renfield, whose blood I have just analyzed, is obsessed with the idea. that he must devour living things. in order to sustain his own life.
Dr. Seward's patient, Renfield, whose blood I have just analyzed is obsessed with the idea that he must eat other living creatures in order to sustain his own life.
You will join the ranks of those women of ambiguous position who travel about Europe from one watering place to another neither married nor unmarried, with no future and no present with only your great love to sustain you.
So even if your parents sustain you, work hard for you, they get in your way all the same!
The main force will sustain the first blow at Raven's Rock.
You've been running all night. In the daytime you shall stand and sustain their blow, halt the German wedge and hold fast until we crush them from the flanks.
Sustain.
I said sustain!
You can sustain that, too, Will, if you've a mind to.
As he gives himself to her let the bride inspire and sustain him let her unite with him in all the experiences of life to which their paths shall lead.
Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain if with too willing ear you list his songs.
Sustain that.
Here, in abundance, were various substances necessary to sustain life -- an underwater larder filled to overflowing, and all Captain Nemo's for the taking.
We can't sustain our flight.
Dr. Seward, your patient, Renfield, whose blood I have just analyzed, is obsessed with the idea that he must devour living things in order to sustain his own life.
And you, Mr and Mrs Strable, well, there's very little I can say to sustain you.
You'll be able to sustain yourself, while you look for a job. It might take a while.
He had an abundance of various substances necessary to sustain life.
Then you know that shortly we can expect Zagon to commence and sustain an all-out attack.
I had only to exist. To search out enough food to sustain me.
A sip of wine, a loaf of bread and a salted herring. which their work earned them yesterday. will sustain their return to sea tonight. to earn tomorrow's wine, bread and herring.
Also, I've got books and materials on every craft needed by man to sustain life.
Without air support, you can't sustain a frontal attack, you fool!
A better never did itself sustain upon a soldier's thigh.
Cease firing before we sustain damage!
We can sustain this orbit for three days, seven hours.
So that you may sustain your gravity and atmosphere, your systems are now open.
Did we sustain damage?
The rest of the ship seems able to sustain life.
There's enough to sustain the colony, but very little more.
Total defiance of the elementary laws which sustain our community.
Since the ship was designed to sustain these forms, we have little choice.
I do not understand why you take the trouble to consume this bulk material to sustain yourselves.

News and current affairs

After cutting down a swath of rainforest, soils are often quickly leached of their nutrients so that they cannot sustain crops or nutritious grasses for livestock.
Otherwise, speculation on member states' national debt will persist, keeping borrowing costs at levels that are inconsistent with the conditions required to sustain economic recovery.
While the US Federal Reserve Board's first round of quantitative easing was effective in ending a wrenching crisis, the second round has done little to sustain meaningful recovery in the labor market and the real economy.
Ghana certainly needs to develop economically, because material wealth is required to improve health, provide education, and sustain democracy.
It is difficult to sustain an empire without the will to use force when necessary.
But, despite modest material support, the US could not sustain a government that could not sustain itself.
So why have the Europeans been unable to sustain improvements in both foundations of growth - employment and productivity - at the same time?
They borrowed money and put it to work to sustain their profitability.
Italy's new leadership must sustain this progress.
It will also sustain unprecedented levels of violence and criminality-another crucial dimension of today's insecurity.
And China's banks pumped massive amounts of credit into the country's economy, enabling it to sustain import demand, which was critical to the global recovery.
Temporary Keynesian demand measures may help to sustain short-run internal growth, but they will not solve France's long-run competitiveness problems.
Has the time come to start laying the groundwork to sustain future growth, especially in poorer regions that have not yet shared in today's prosperity?
While this is just one part of a much more complex story, it seems unlikely that these and other non-tradable sectors can sustain employment growth in the future.
Only then could export growth, impressive since mid-2009, sustain further increases.
The housing problem is contributing to the financial crisis, which in turn is reducing the supply of credit needed to sustain economic activity.
Tighter credit rationing will then further hamper the ability of households and firms to borrow, spend, invest, and sustain economic growth.
But Europe should move more decisively in this direction. Otherwise, speculation on member states' national debt will persist, keeping borrowing costs at levels that are inconsistent with the conditions required to sustain economic recovery.
Indeed, the Basel Committee plans to require more capital in the future, though the new requirements will be delayed, owing to concerns about the cost and availability of credit to sustain the recovery.
But both sides' stated commitment to fraternal ties will not be enough to sustain their political relationship into the future.

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