8 sentences with 'sustain'

Example sentences and phrases with the word sustain and other words derived from it.

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« There was simply not enough food to sustain significant population growth. »
« He and Huff managed to sustain some pace through the corners and, by the sixth lap, had closed Winton's lead considerably. The champion was losing power. »
« However, up to that point in history, cities had not been possible because there was never enough food to sustain a large group staying in one place for very long. »
« Of course, if the little animals that sustain these carnivorous plants are not human beings, then the great and exciting mythological stories of man-eating plants are just legends. »
« By 1938, Hitler felt that Germany was sufficiently prepared to sustain a limited war; by 1939 he felt confident that the German war machine was ready for a full-scale effort to seize the space he envisioned for the new Reich. »
« Peter Abelard focused on the use and application of reason to faith - he believed that ultimate truth could and should sustain a reasoned investigation of its precepts, a stance that got him into considerable trouble with some Church leaders. »
« In 1917, as the war dragged on and the German military leadership under Field Marshal Paul Von Hindenburg recognised that the nation could not sustain the war much longer, German generals decided to use their new submarines, the U-Boats, to attack any ship suspected of carrying military supplies to the British or the French. »
« The Germans had been able to fight the French and British to a standstill on the Western Front, but when the US entered on the side of the British and French, it became impossible to sustain the war in the long run. The only hope seemed to be a last-ditch offensive that could bring the French and British to the negotiating table. »

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