life-sustaining
adjective
: helping someone or something to stay alive : supporting or extending life
life-sustaining medical treatment
The storm brought life-sustaining rain/water to the farms.
Examples of life-sustaining in a Sentence
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Still, the life-sustaining medicine can be an exorbitant cost.
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Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2024
The organization’s continued mission is to provide life-sustaining meals and nutrition counseling for people in the New York Metropolitan area living with severe illness and has seen a 20% increase in meals delivered over the past year, according to its website.
—Thania Garcia, Variety, 7 Feb. 2024
Embracing ambiguity may well be as life-sustaining as raw almonds and SPF.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 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
Alongside their custom car seats, our patients leave with tracheostomies, life-sustaining ventilators, oxygen tanks, suction machines, feeding tubes and pumps, and discharge instructions the size of a textbook — all necessary items to start their journey outside the hospital.
—Anjali Garg and Amanda Ruth, STAT, 7 Dec. 2023
This male individual has selected a small cylindrical container, likely filled with life-sustaining H2O, and is tilting it expertly towards his intake orifice.
—Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 16 Nov. 2023
Coupled with major advances in the quality of U.S. care through initiatives like the T1D Exchange and innovative models like Blue Circle Health, the news of a future where that life-sustaining drug is more affordable is certainly something to celebrate.
—David Panzirer, STAT, 24 Oct. 2023
In other words, hibernation allows animals to stretch their fat reserves farther by reducing their body’s temperature and life-sustaining processes to a minimum.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2024
The organization’s continued mission is to provide life-sustaining meals and nutrition counseling for people in the New York Metropolitan area living with severe illness and has seen a 20% increase in meals delivered over the past year, according to its website.
—Thania Garcia, Variety, 7 Feb. 2024
Embracing ambiguity may well be as life-sustaining as raw almonds and SPF.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 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
Alongside their custom car seats, our patients leave with tracheostomies, life-sustaining ventilators, oxygen tanks, suction machines, feeding tubes and pumps, and discharge instructions the size of a textbook — all necessary items to start their journey outside the hospital.
—Anjali Garg and Amanda Ruth, STAT, 7 Dec. 2023
This male individual has selected a small cylindrical container, likely filled with life-sustaining H2O, and is tilting it expertly towards his intake orifice.
—Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 16 Nov. 2023
Coupled with major advances in the quality of U.S. care through initiatives like the T1D Exchange and innovative models like Blue Circle Health, the news of a future where that life-sustaining drug is more affordable is certainly something to celebrate.
—David Panzirer, STAT, 24 Oct. 2023
In other words, hibernation allows animals to stretch their fat reserves farther by reducing their body’s temperature and life-sustaining processes to a minimum.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
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