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

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

  • While men are addicted to drugs, women have been forced to look out for sustenance elsewhere.  - Baari (film)
  • A clique of 4 vampires, led by Benedict (Mark Hengst), struggle to find sustenance by seeking victims with untainted blood.  - Live Evil (film)
  • His sustenance consists of black bread, synthetic meals, and "Victory"-branded gin.  - Nineteen Eighty-Four
  • Unfortunately, those do not provide enough sustenance and Bold becomes very weak.  - The Fox Cub Bold
  • They are still travelling, trying to find shelter and sustenance in the wasteland.  - World's End (comics)
  • Chaman is made to do all the household chores as he lives on the sustenance provided by his wife's family.  - Ghar Ki Izzat (1948 film)
  • They are transformed into brutal killing-machines, while the males are enslaved for use as sustenance or as subjects for genetic experiments.  - Operation: Matriarchy
  • Apparently Ian found a sustenance that was far superior to fear or pain, and so did the old man: love.  - The Deaths of Ian Stone
  • After many efforts to find sustenance elsewhere, the two decide to return home.  - Paar (film)
  • The Ina are nocturnal, long-lived, and derive sustenance by drinking human blood.  - Fledgling (novel)
  • The two call on an imaginary Lobster Man for sustenance and entertainment.  - Cowboy Mouth (play)
  • He finds sustenance from the meat of a cactus and attempts in vain to shoot a rabbit with the gun.  - Inferno (1953 film)
  • The creature the Chief keeps in the basement is demanding more sustenance and making its own hunting arrangements.  - Paradise Towers

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