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
  • The doctor removes the life-sustaining equipment and waits.
    Jen Christensen, CNN, 28 Oct. 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
  • Such events can also highlight the inequities of the life-sustaining resource.
    Ines De La Cuetara, ABC News, 8 July 2023
  • Still, the life-sustaining medicine can be an exorbitant cost.
    Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • During his mother’s last days, Tom Dibble made the decision to stop life-sustaining measures.
    J. David McSwane, ProPublica, 7 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • In 1990, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of her parents, affirming the constitutional right to refuse life-sustaining treatment.
    Joseph J. Fins, STAT, 29 Aug. 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, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The lawsuits highlight the rising cost of insulin, a life-sustaining drug for millions of Americans with diabetes.
    Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 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
  • 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
  • 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 satisfies the id-in-chief while ensuring U.S. aid delivers life-sustaining support to tens of millions.
    Sean P. Brooks, Orlando Sentinel, 14 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Unlike most pine trees, which have three needles in each sheath, or bundle, Torrey pines produce five long needles, an adaptation to the desert climate to draw in more life-sustaining moisture from fog and dew.
    Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2023
  • 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 must become the best versions of themselves to stay on course and survive.
    Breanna Bell, Variety, 12 Apr. 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
  • But Wright and other patients reliant on insulin fear drug companies' attention to the profitable blockbuster meds comes at the expense of a life-sustaining drug that's been around for more than a century.
    Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • The seawater gets heated by the magma, which sends it shooting back up into the deep ocean, along with a wealth of life-sustaining minerals that support a whole ecosystem of organisms in proximity to the vents.
    Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • These foods insist on time and care—caramelization via the Maillard reaction is a central component of all cooking, a transformation from inedible to life-sustaining.
    Bedatri D. Choudhury, Bon Appetit Magazine, 30 Apr. 2025
  • But the administration sent out stop-work orders to thousands of foreign aid recipients, covering a wide range of services from lifesaving, life-sustaining and good governance that sent the aid world into chaos.
    Laura Kelly, The Hill, 16 Apr. 2025

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