Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: sustains
IPA transcription: [səst'eɪnz]
Usage examples
  • "Think of the glory of winning a goal which sustains the football player through the toughest of fights.
  • The most audacious pencil might tremble in the rash attempt of defining, by forms and colors, the infinite Spirit, the eternal Father, who pervades and sustains the universe.
  • Such an equilibrium maintains itself by virtue of the same necessity that produced it; without arresting the flux or introducing any miracle, it sustains in being an ideal form.
  • Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it to perform its most essential functions.