How to Use life-sustaining in a Sentence

life-sustaining

adjective
  • Some things in the universe shine with a constant, life-sustaining light.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 20 July 2023
  • Still, the life-sustaining medicine can be an exorbitant cost.
    — Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Such events can also highlight the inequities of the life-sustaining resource.
    — Ines De La Cuetara, ABC News, 8 July 2023
  • There were people to come and give them life-sustaining materials such as food and water.
    — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 19 Oct. 2024
  • There was some evidence that forced treatment could be life-sustaining in the short term, but its long-term effects were more uncertain.
    — Katie Engelhart, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Year after year after year the life-sustaining seasonal rains in the Horn of Africa have simply failed to fall.
    — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Together our work shows how a particular type of condensate forms in cells with a life-sustaining function.
    — Trevor Grandpre, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2024
  • And some humanitarian groups have scaled back their life-sustaining efforts.
    — Brian MacQuarrie, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Truly life-sustaining recoveries would emphasize all the spheres of eco-swaraj, arrived at via four pathways.
    — Ashish Kothari, Scientific American, 1 June 2021
  • Friends, neighbors and strangers extend support, from warm embraces to donations of food, blankets and other life-sustaining goods.
    — Julie Garel, Baltimore Sun, 25 July 2024
  • Carol sees these as temporary coping mechanisms rather than sincere, life-sustaining joy.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Households will go without life-sustaining necessities such as food, medicine and medical care to pay their energy bills.
    — Joie D. Acosta, Baltimore Sun, 26 Mar. 2024
  • During his mother’s last days, Tom Dibble made the decision to stop life-sustaining measures.
    — J. David McSwane, ProPublica, 7 Dec. 2024
  • At these shows, viewers largely cut off from nature’s magic were prompted to marvel at its beauty and appreciate its life-sustaining work.
    — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Much as our blood vessels send life-sustaining fluid throughout our bodies, these tunnels convey the precious water that sustains all life in this region.
    — Martin Broen, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Oct. 2024
  • These same minerals are found in hot springs, which may have provided the same conditions necessary for these life-sustaining reactions.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Salmon advocates insist dams are operated in ways that harm Chinook salmon by denying them life-sustaining flows of cold water.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Federal funds to support life-sustaining university research have been slashed.
    — Literary Hub, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The lawsuits highlight the rising cost of insulin, a life-sustaining drug for millions of Americans with diabetes.
    — Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The origin of magnetism is key because magnetic fields, like the one surrounding Earth, can protect and shield a life-sustaining atmosphere.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 25 Sep. 2024
  • This information is important for your doctor to know because the placenta provides your baby with life-sustaining oxygen.
    — Nancy Gottesman, Parents, 14 July 2023
  • The annual flooding brought silt and fertile soil to parts of the desert, an essential and life-sustaining tradition the Egyptians counted on every year.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 18 July 2024
  • With more than a year left to go before reaching their target planet, a lack of life-sustaining supplies and loss of leadership, the remaining crew has to figure out a way to survive and stay on course.
    — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Apr. 2023
  • If that doesn't come through, the agency will ensure resources are available to support ongoing lifesaving and life-sustaining activities.
    — Shruti Date Singh Bloomberg News (wpns), arkansasonline.com, 13 July 2024
  • At the heart of the case was the argument that patients have a constitutional right of privacy to refuse treatment, including life-sustaining treatment.
    — Robert S. Olick, The Conversation, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Embracing ambiguity may well be as life-sustaining as raw almonds and SPF.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Joshua was placed under his father’s care following his release from the hospital and was required to stay hooked up to life-sustaining medical equipment, the documents state.
    — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 11 Aug. 2023
  • What the books do show is how these two major news organizations managed to pivot to life-sustaining digital subscriptions while much of the local news landscape lay in ruins.
    — Julia M. Klein, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The parks become more crowded from Memorial Day on, when the coast redwoods are shrouded in life-sustaining fog, and inland conditions are warm and sunny.
    — Jill K. Robinson, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 July 2025
  • If Medicaid expansion is cut, more people will be forced into unregulated and risky networks to obtain life-sustaining medicine.
    — Tony Christiano, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2025

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