Sustains
[sə'steinz]
Examples
- We do not yet understand what causes the heat of the sun or what sustains that undying fire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- If called upon to name the most important of all factors of human existence, that which underlies and sustains all others, even to life itself, everyone must agree that it is _food_. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Certainly, the exemplary Mrs. Garth had her droll aspects, but her character sustained her oddities, as a very fine wine sustains a flavor of skin. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And I believe I know (indeed, not to make any ridiculous pretence about it, I know I know) who sustains you in it, Mr Merdle. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The building in which I found myself contained the machinery which produces that artificial atmosphere which sustains life on Mars. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
Edited by Blair