How to use "subsist" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

Example sentences for "subsist" in popular movie and book plots

Instead, she insists that they marry immediately and subsist on her salary while he finishes a novel, and Andrew accepts. - Pleasure Cruise
Living without a father, the orphaned brothers subsist off the proceeds of petty theft in a run-down North Philadelphia row house. - Orphans (1987 film)
White (Czarist) Russians, they once lived in luxury, but had to flee Communism to America, where they subsist as pauper servants to the rich. - The Gutting of Couffignal
She tries to subsist on what she can grow herself. - Emmeline (Rossner novel)
A species, called "Burrowers" by the Natives, used to subsist on buffalo. - The Burrowers
For weeks, the Ingallses subsist on potatoes and coarse brown bread made from wheat ground in their coffee mill. - The Long Winter (novel)
The fleet's food supply has been contaminated, forcing everyone to subsist on rapidly dwindling food rations. - The Passage (Battlestar Galactica)
The victims of Earth’s misfortune have been forced to subsist on scavenged refuse from the past on the mangled streets of forlorn city-states. - Phantom 2040
They normally subsist on the tree's cottony foliage, augmented by hunting and a flock of domesticated turkeys. - The Integral Trees
The nuns have essentially no money and subsist by living off the land, on what vegetables the arid climate provides, and some milk and eggs. - Lilies of the Field (1963 film)

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