This is made by first driving into the ground two forked poles seven or eight feet in height and stout enough to sustain a ridge pole of moderate size.
The leverage at the point where the log rests on the flat stick should be very slight, and the log should be so placed that the upright shall sustain nearly all the weight.
To sustain the analogy, Zaleucus should have permitted an innocent son to have both his eyes put out, and the convicted adulterer to escape.
Rites were enacted to sustainother rites; institution lay beneath institution, through so many successive steps, that the crowning principle at the summit easily passed out of sight.
Underwood constituted the United States circuit court sitting for Virginia before which the case was brought in December 1868; the court was divided, the chief justice voting to sustain the motion and Underwood to overrule it.
Every one who enters into the covenant pledges himself not only not to rob the poor and make widows his spoil, but to love his neighbor as himself, to seek the welfare of his fellow, and to sustain the poor and needy.
They are on their trial now, and nobly do they sustain it!
Without provisions and hardly any money they had to sustain life on raw eggs which they bought in the small towns they touched at.
Then came the necessity to sustain them by force, since they could no longer be sustained by industry; and the moment force showed itself every one felt that all was over.
Should the Word be allowed to release suddenly all the energies latent within it, no man could sustain the weight of so mighty a Revelation.
His food, too, was fast running low, and the scant herbage still left among the trees would no longer sustain his jaded animal.
All the countries that make up the kingdom, England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, sent their authorized speakers to sustain the cause of freedom for the slaves.
King Edward, greeting his loving subjects, expatiated upon the miseries which the realm was likely tosustain by the invasion of the wicked, barbarous, and perfidious Scots.
Victor I will remain, Or on this earth lie slain, Never shall shesustain Loss to redeem me.
The scope of it is to preserve the being, and confirm the health of our fellow-creatures; of consequence, to sustain the blessings of society, and crown life with fruition.
So at last she became so discouraged she began to drift into his way of doing merely what would sustain them, and then reading, fishing, or sleeping the remainder of the time.
Air to breathe and food to sustain are presupposed.
Sorrows still sting and burn, though recognised as sent in love, and the tried heart yearns for these other messengers to come from God to sustain and soothe.
Now, everything that touches our lives sooner or later goes back to the industries which sustain our lives.
Although inferior in numbers to their enemies, the guerilleros of Trujano made such a desperate attack upon the soldiers of Regules, that the latter, unable to sustain the shock, were thrown for a moment into confusion.
Ride quickly; and I shall endeavour to sustain the attack till your return.
For thy sake I shall sustain the river of the gods, when she will take her descent from the sky, she who is pure and blessed and divine, O (king) of a mighty arm!
Let the three gods that sustain the triple worlds in their entirety, declare truly, or let them forsake me today.
In the three worlds there exists none who is able to sustain the same, excepting Siva, the most praiseworthy of gods, the great Lord with the throat of sable blue.
I shall sustain that most praiseworthy of rivers when she falls down from the third region of the world (heaven).
But for this fear he would never have taken the trouble of upsetting and replacing everything in the room, but would have been perfectly satisfied for his employer to sustain the loss.
I have called to ask if you would give me credit for a few articles of food until then, by which I will be able to sustain my family.
Where will you find a roof-pipe able to sustain my weight?
The house in which he found her was a small ruinous building, sagged and jutting forward, as if struggling to sustain itself against time and dilapidation.
To sustain his belief that he has done serviceable work, he must be sore of his having charged them with good matter.
We had in him a lord who cast off luxury to live like a Spartan when under arms, with a passion to serve his country and sustainthe glory of our military annals.
It is very difficult to sustain gnawing hunger, such as I then felt for the first time.
And then, as nearer and more near us came The Bird of Heaven, more glorious he appeared, So that the eye could not sustain his presence.
Harry had a fine baritone voice, while George could take a high note and sustain it as well as most sopranos.
It will sustain life for quite a time and with the addition of nitrogenous matter has great fattening properties, but without that it is not valuable as food.
I have heard it said that sugar contains all that is necessary to sustain life.
There are many divergent opinions, in regard to the relation which a man should sustain to his fellow man, which lead to widely divergent courses of action and largely affect the world for good or ill.
All forms of religion and systems of philosophy have striven to sustain and comfort men at their trying hour of need.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sustain" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
