How to Use subsistence in a Sentence

subsistence

noun

• Farming is their means of subsistence.
• They depended on hunting and fishing for subsistence.
• Fifty-six percent of the statewide subsistence harvest is made up of fish.
  — Paige Vega, Vox, 3 July 2024
• The fish are important to the tribes for subsistence and as a vital part of their culture.
  — Kale Williams, OregonLive.com, 25 May 2018
• Grove said at least 20 others are doing the same thing, to keep the subsistence funds flowing to those out of work.
  — Editorial Board Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 11 Dec. 2020
• Bristol Bay hosts the largest wild salmon run in the world, and tens of thousands of Alaskans rely on these fish for subsistence and jobs.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 3 Oct. 2020
• Guns are a part of Alaska’s culture and a core tool of a subsistence lifestyle.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2022
• But its purpose was recreation, not subsistence, and it was made for the benefit of the middle class, not the poor.
  — Eula Biss, The New Yorker, 8 June 2022
• One of the park’s purposes is to preserve the land and wildlife for Alaska Native subsistence use.
  — Jenna Schnuer, National Geographic, 10 June 2020
• The filling of cheese and bread crumbs also reflects an area in which sheep rearing was the main form of subsistence for centuries.
  — Rachel Roddy, New York Times, 13 May 2024
• In the meantime, subsistence foods are stored in three 40-foot village freezer vans.
  — Author: Rachel D'oro, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Nov. 2019
• In the United States, before 1865, the business of farming was, for the most part, a subsistence existence.
  — Kevin Dayhoff, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 31 July 2021
• In turn, the waters are home to more than 900 species of fish, essential to both local subsistence and the Guyanese economy.
  — Antonia Juhasz, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2022
• Son of subsistence farmers from one of the poorest regions of one of the poorest nations in the Western Hemisphere.
  — Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2021
• Its three schools now operate on a subsistence calendar, where students take time off in spring to hunt birds and in the fall to hunt moose.
  — Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2023
• The idea is that these people should work in order to work, with something like subsistence as a side benefit.
  — Marilynne Robinson, The New York Review of Books, 11 June 2020
• Brand gives the example of TIST’s tree planting on subsistence farms.
  — Natasha Frost, Quartz, 15 Jan. 2020
• If wages rose above subsistence, this would plunge the whole system into ruin.
  — Marilynne Robinson, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• Worl highlighted how the fish is a source of pride for the people in Alaska who engage in subsistence living.
  — Sophia Carlisle, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Mar. 2023
• In 2014 a complete ban was placed on all fishing for kings, subsistence included, on both sides of the border.
  — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2018
• The tusks were purchased from Inuit subsistence hunters.
  — Sara Tabin, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2021
• In the 1980s, a subsistence hunter caught three unusual-looking whales in Greenland’s Disko Bay.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 20 June 2019
• Most Kanaks subsistence-farm yams, taros, sweet potatoes and bananas.
  — A. Odysseus Patrick, Washington Post, 1 June 2018
• Just when the grimness of Damani’s subsistence threatens to sink her and the reader, the archetypal Good Thing happens.
  — Meredith Maran, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2023
• Most residents of the area are subsistence farmers who see the four-lane road as a luxury for rich people.
  — Jake Maxwell Watts, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2018
• But the habitat loss and subsistence-hunting made the last native elk disappear by around 1900.
  — Tom Carpenter, Outdoor Life, 21 Oct. 2020
• Dilemmas of abundance are painful; the diseases of subsistence are deadly.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• It is also based on the subsistence needs and values extending back thousands of years.
  — Vogue, 24 Feb. 2023
• The dispute in Bahia was sparked by complaints from subsistence farmers who claim they had been forced from government land.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• The board did also take the step of limiting the subsistence harvest to 15 caribou per person per year with only one cow allowed (there was previously no limit on cow or calf caribou).
  — Tyler Freel, Outdoor Life, 10 July 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024