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

Recent Examples on the Web

For that reason, astronomers will use the mission to search in our own Milky Way galaxy for such life-sustaining ingredients within interstellar molecular clouds of gas where planets and stars form. —Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2025

These cuts at this scale will have precisely the opposite effect, creating immediate instability, reducing system capacity and eviscerating essential, life-sustaining supports to Marylanders with IDD, placing them in grave danger. —Karen Lee, Baltimore Sun, 26 Feb. 2025

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

If Medicaid expansion is cut, more people will be forced into unregulated and risky networks to obtain life-sustaining medicine. —Tony Christiano, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2025

Rhymes for life-sustaining

• immunostaining
• abstaining
• attaining
• campaigning
• complaining
• constraining
• containing
• detaining
• disdaining
• entraining
• explaining
• maintaining