Synonyms

1. get
2. have
3. suffer

Sentence Examples

1. The crates of tinned food, and twenty-five litre water bottles, could not sustain them.
2. TechnoServe had limited funds to initiate a center, so it clearly needed multiple partners to establish and sustain it.
3. Most commonly my dwelling is the hollow of a cork tree large enough to shelter this miserable body the herdsmen and goatherds who frequent these mountains, moved by compassion, furnish me with food, leaving it by the wayside or on the rocks, where they think I may perhaps pass and find it and so, even though I may be then out of my senses, the wants of nature teach me what is required to sustain me, and make me crave it and eager to take it.
4. Jonathan never returned to the food line, and as he hardly collected enough to sustain himself, he now had to go through the rubbish bins as well.
5. But it soon occurred to me that the atmosphere was now far too rare to sustain even the feathers that they actually fell, as they appeared to do, with great rapidity and that I had been surprised by the united velocities of their descent and my own elevation.
6. Then it was he wished for the sword of Amadis, against which no enchantment whatever had any power then he cursed his ill fortune then he magnified the loss the world would sustain by his absence while he remained there enchanted, for that he believed he was beyond all doubt then he once more took to thinking of his beloved Dulcinea del Toboso then he called to his worthy squire Sancho Panza, who, buried in sleep and stretched upon the pack-saddle of his ass, was oblivious, at that moment, of the mother that bore him then he called upon the sages Lirgandeo and Alquife to come to his aid then he invoked his good friend Urganda to succour him and then, at last, morning found him in such a state of desperation and perplexity that he was bellowing like a bull, for he had no hope that day would bring any relief to his suffering, which he believed would last for ever, inasmuch as he was enchanted and of this he was convinced by seeing that Rocinante never stirred, much or little, and he felt persuaded that he and his horse were to remain in this state, without eating or drinking or sleeping, until the malign influence of the stars was overpast, or until some other more sage enchanter should disenchant him.
7. These, I sustain are not mere pamphlets suspended from stalls for the ignorant and gullible to gape at, nor almanacs or astrological compendia of the spurious kind, but serious, scholarly collections of testimonies various and unexplainable.
8. During the long, cold winters, it iced over so thick, so solid, that kings fought their wars on the surface, which was strong enough to sustain thousands.
9. They might be able to conquer us with their full force, but the damage they sustain would be catastrophic.
10. Then all was peace, all friendship, all concord as yet the dull share of the crooked plough had not dared to rend and pierce the tender bowels of our first mother that without compulsion yielded from every portion of her broad fertile bosom all that could satisfy, sustain, and delight the children that then possessed her.