How to Use sustained in a Sentence

sustained

adjective

• At one point the wind blew from the west at a sustained 28 mph.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2024
• All of this is putting the brakes on a sustained risk rally.
  — Eva Szalay, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2023
• Then came the sustained assaults: of one hour, and then five hours.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2023
• The storm had maximum sustained winds of 140 miles per hour at the time.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 27 Sep. 2024
• What the part, and the play, calls for, for Aubrey and me, was a sustained agitation.
  — Michael Paulson, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2024
• But if war in the Middle East leads to a sustained spike in oil prices, even that could be off the table.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Apr. 2024
• The city where she was born, the city that nurtured and sustained and tortured her, and sometimes broke her heart.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• That would be the highest sustained average of fliers since March when the outbreak took hold in the U.S.
  — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 July 2020
• By evening, Washington had recorded a sustained wind of 31 mph, and a briefer gust of 45 mph.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2023
• The study found that the median time to sustained recovery was 11 days in the ivermectin group and 11 days in the placebo group.
  — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Feb. 2023
• The storm had maximum sustained winds of 35 mph with higher gusts.
  — CBS News, 24 Sep. 2023
• But there should also be joy, of the sustained variety.
  — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2024
• This trend could result in sustained strong demand for Nvidia.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
• Walker’s sustained effervescence through the first two acts helped deepen the plunge of the third.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2024
• The storm unleashed maximum sustained winds near 125 mph on an area not used to this kind of weather.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 30 Aug. 2023
• On Sunday, the system was a tropical storm with sustained winds of 60 mph.
  — Alex Sundby, CBS News, 9 Oct. 2024
• The sustained strength is reflected in new launches, some of which have sold out rapidly.
  — Zainab Fattah, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2024
• Is there a sustained demand for specialized skills in this area?
  — Johnny C. Taylor Jr., USA TODAY, 17 July 2024
• Washington took its largest lead at 55-38 early in the fourth when Oregon State made a sustained run.
  — oregonlive, 17 Feb. 2023
• The storm is moving westward at 15 miles per hour, with maximum sustained winds of around 45 miles per hour.
  — Aditya Jain, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
• The hurricane brought maximum sustained wind speeds of 120 mph and is the fifth hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. this year.
  — Abigail Adams, People.com, 10 Oct. 2024
• But those kinds of sustained hits are rare, and Concord will almost certainly not be the last to be buried in the live-service graveyard.
  — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 4 Sep. 2024
• Still, the sustained invasion has proved to be a morale boost for Ukrainians sorely in need of one after two and a half years of grinding war.
  — Ellen Ioanes, Vox, 15 Aug. 2024
• Neither woman in the car, whom Hutchinson said were sisters, sustained injuries, per The Post.
  — Laura Barcella, Peoplemag, 1 June 2023
• That should lead to sustained profit growth over time, Spring predicted.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2024
• Some experts say a sustained decline in cases and a positive case rate of less than 2% are among the signs the virus is under control.
  — Frank Miles, Fox News, 10 Sep. 2020
• The moment fell amid the show's sustained criticism of Carlson, who parted ways with his home network, Fox News, in April 2023.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 15 Feb. 2024
• And the sustained turnout makes preventative measures all the more crucial.
  — Astha Rajvanshi, TIME, 10 Apr. 2024
• But some observers don’t think streaming or TV platforms would see a sustained lift if TikTok went away.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 18 Mar. 2024
• This does not mean that efforts to delegitimize the results of the election—or the possibility that antidemocratic forces may try to mount a sustained attack on the electoral system—should be taken lightly.
  — Jenna Bednar, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024