How to Use subsistence in a Sentence

subsistence

noun

• Farming is their means of subsistence.
• They depended on hunting and fishing for subsistence.
• 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
• 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
• The tusks were purchased from Inuit subsistence hunters.
  — Sara Tabin, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2021
• 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
• 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
• On one of the school days, a resident shared a caribou catch with the class, and students learned first-hand about animal anatomy and one of the food sources for subsistence hunters, Lloyd said.
  — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Aug. 2023
• And the warming waters affect seals and birds that locals rely on for subsistence.
  — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Aug. 2023
• Apache people still harvest acorns from the oaks for subsistence and as a cultural resource.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 12 Dec. 2020
• In a town where many people make minimum wage, a subsistence lifestyle is often out of reach.
  — Devi Lockwood, Wired, 21 Sep. 2021
• Leisure was one precondition: enough people had to be free of the demands of subsistence to have time on their hands that required filling.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2020
• But these plants mean more than just subsistence to Indigenous people.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 7 July 2020
• Once a week, Indigenous islanders were allowed to hunt or fish for subsistence.
  — WIRED, 15 July 2023
• The season for subsistence hunting and fishing kicks off in the springtime, with the arrival of migratory birds and returning fish runs, and that’s cause for celebration.
  — Emily Schwing, NPR, 11 June 2024
• Much more has been invested in apps to connect rich consumers to drivers, vacation houses, and prepared meals than in apps to connect subsistence farmers to markets and remote children to learning.
  — Daniel Björkegren, Foreign Affairs, 9 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 28 Sep 2024