Subsisted in a sentence

But before European settlers cleared Vermont’s landscape in the 1800s, Indigenous people carefully subsisted off the region’s forests for thousands of years.

But other survivors have revealed that they subsisted on paltry meals for weeks as they were held.

Millions of farming families in the west African countries of Ivory Coast and Ghana – where the majority of the world’s commodity cocoa crop is grown – subsisted on less than $1 a day.

Oppenheimer subsisted on little more than Chesterfield cigarettes and double-strength martinis, rims dipped in lime.

Both contemporary and ancient societies that have traditionally subsisted by hunting and gathering wild resources are also known to alter their environments by constructing features such as stone walls.

Since then, they have subsisted on their standard fare of one-score games, but of opposite flavors.

Indeed, some contend that these connections may have subsisted his appointment as Public Service Commissioner.

Many of those fleeing the new Assad advance subsisted by raising livestock in southern Idlib and northern Hama, and their flight north has left them without a livelihood.

An advancing price meant a continued infusion of investor capital on which debt-ridden Enron in large part subsisted (much like a financial "pyramid" or " Ponzi scheme ").

During the retreat to Portugal in 1811, he subsisted on "cold meat and bread", to the despair of his staff who dined with him.

Having accumulated no substantial wealth during his lifetime, he subsisted on his savings, a small pension, and the income produced by his farm.

He rarely ate much food and often subsisted on crackers and milk.

Living frugally, he subsisted on an inheritance that was nearly depleted by the time of his last years.

Poorer colonists subsisted by hunting the herds of wild cattle that roamed throughout the island and selling their hides.

Richard Cromwell subsisted in straitened circumstances after his resignation, he went abroad and lived in relative obscurity for the remainder of his life.

She subsisted on her meager resources, suffering from cold winters and occasionally fainting from hunger.

The indigenous people were traditionally mostly semi-nomadic tribes who subsisted on hunting, fishing, gathering, and migrant agriculture.

The inhabitants of these islands also subsisted mainly on fishing and related industries and still do in the case of Urk and Wieringen.

The Lakota once subsisted on the bison hunt, and on corn.

The Lewis and Clark Expedition sometimes subsisted on pawpaws during their travels.