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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As the life-sustaining Sun sextiles visionary Neptune at 6:45 pm EDT, other paths are opening up.
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Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 19 May 2024
Truly life-sustaining recoveries would emphasize all the spheres of eco-swaraj, arrived at via four pathways.
—Ashish Kothari, Scientific American, 1 June 2021
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
The ways that states across the country are denying bodily autonomy differ from the ways 20th-century Ireland did, and yet, all too frequently here, someone’s parent, sibling, or lover is deprived of life-saving or life-sustaining medical care, or forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term.
—Maggie Doherty, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2024
Still, the life-sustaining medicine can be an exorbitant cost.
—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
Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 19 May 2024
Truly life-sustaining recoveries would emphasize all the spheres of eco-swaraj, arrived at via four pathways.
—Ashish Kothari, Scientific American, 1 June 2021
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
The ways that states across the country are denying bodily autonomy differ from the ways 20th-century Ireland did, and yet, all too frequently here, someone’s parent, sibling, or lover is deprived of life-saving or life-sustaining medical care, or forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term.
—Maggie Doherty, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2024
Still, the life-sustaining medicine can be an exorbitant cost.
—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
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“Life-sustaining.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/life-sustaining. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.
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