Examples of subsist

• The expectation to subsist through the use of one's natural assets is therefore a reasonable expectation.

• Elderly people subsisting on meagre incomes in council accommodation.

• This applies not just to everything that subsists, but to all order, every law, and every foundation of something's being true and good.

• Certainly the latter, especially when too abstract, have difficulty in triggering processes of imagination, and often subsist quite apart from them.

• For all intents and purposes, what constituted the subsistence economy operated as a closed economy, communities subsisting on what they had to hand.

• The high frequency of caries likely suggests that these individuals were subsisting on a mixed diet.

• As a result, linear representations of base-superstructure relations had subsisted in the literature, generating more slogans than informed analysis.

• They are now so poor that they are starving, frequently subsisting on soup made of fatback boiled in water.