Sustaining is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SUSTAINING in dictionary:

VERB:
• strengthen or support physically or mentally
• bear (the weight of an object) without breaking or falling
• undergo or suffer (something unpleasant, especially an injury)
• cause to continue for an extended period or without interruption
• (of a performer) represent (a part or character) convincingly
• uphold, affirm, or confirm the justice or validity of
NOUN:
• the act of sustaining
• an effect or facility on a keyboard or electronic instrument whereby a note can be sustained after the key is released.
ADJECTIVE:
• preserving life
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to maintain by providing with food and drink

Words related to SUSTAINING

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Words that contain SUSTAINING

sustainings12 sustainingly16 unsustaining13

How to use SUSTAINING in a sentence

• Gilman and made a strong speech in favor of sustaining Mr.
• She was fired on from Fort Pillow, sustaining this serious damage from the shot.
• The difficulty of sustaining the regulations of our commerce and of other important interests from abuse without such designation furnishes a strong motive for this measure.
• It is a sustaining thing we know, something we can hang to, fasten to, and even tie to.
• The apparatus was constantly hissing and sustaining invisible dialogues.
• A whole year he sat over it, without leaving his cell, barely sustaining himself with coarse food, and praying incessantly.
• Fourqueux, councillor of state, an old man, highly esteemed, but incapable of sustaining the crushing weight of affairs.
• My plan for sustaining life under these conditions was to change my boots as often as possible.
• The place chosen was the great sustaining pier of the dome, near which the altar of S.
• They grow upwards towards the top of the stalk, and, in consequence of this, are capable of sustaining the heaviest garment.
• And there in his strong, sustaining arms, even though limp with fatigue, I knew I never did, could, or would, love anybody like I loved him.
• Spurred on by the sustaining Constance, he stood by his guns and at last was gratified to see faint signs of surrender.
• Bombs, automatic pistols, even soldiers and a submarine, assist quite naturally in sustaining the interest.
• That is to say, though the choice of good and evil belongs to man, under all circumstances he is dependent upon the sustaining help of life, which comes from the Omnipotent.
• He went off unhurt, after sustaining the appearance of much rage and violence from the friends of the deceased.
• Thus constituted an order or guild, they held it in their hands at will to advance or to withhold the money for carrying on wars or sustaining the public credit.
• The production of vegetable bodies, again, requires the constitution of sea and land, and the system of a living world, sustaining plants at least, if not animals.
• You will be surprised to find that you will have secured or developed three or four times as much sustaining breath power as you imagined you had.
• Show no effort or contraction of the face in sustaining voice or pronouncing words.
• Seldom has a stronger proof been given of the sustaining power of affection.
• The two, the lean sheep and the long stocking, together comprised the only industries which the heath afforded and was thought capable of sustaining.
• At the same time the Huguenot faith was transmitted to their descendants, and had a marked influence in sustaining common religious fervour and consistency.
• Thus, at a provincial theatre, then under his management, Elliston once tried the strange experiment of sustaining the characters of both Richard and Richmond in the same drama.
• Yet a great fish-day like this rarely passes off without some vessel sustaining serious damage.
• The delight of contemplation has been in history a height without sustaining breadth, a needle, not a cube.
• The publication of his adventures as a slave, and as a fugitive from slavery in his native land, has been most valuable in sustaining a sound anti-slavery spirit in Great Britain.
• The gentlemen were keeping up a rather lively conversation on the events of the evening, and the lady was sustaining a very strong conflict with her own pride.
• And his wealth consisted not alone in the possession of a clear conscience and a sustaining trust in Providence.

Similar words containing SUSTAIN without suffix ing

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