Synonym: free burning. Similar words: sustain, sustainable, unsustainable, sustainability, contained, entertained, stain, abstain. Meaning: [sə'steɪnd] 
adj. 1. maintained at length without interruption or weakening 2. (of an electric arc) continuous.
adj. 1. maintained at length without interruption or weakening 2. (of an electric arc) continuous. 
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31 Every aircraft in there has sustained some damage.
32 They came under sustained attack from the air.
33 He suffered/sustained multiple fractures in a motorcycle accident.
34 He appeared embarrassed and ill at ease with the sustained applause that greeted him.
35 The court sustained his claim that the contract was illegal.
36 The driver of the truck sustained only minor injuries to his legs and arms.
37 America has enough firepower in the area to mount sustained air strikes.
38 The love of my family and friends sustained me through my ordeal.
39 She was sustained by the strength of her religious faith.
40 Grandfather Dingsdale had sustained a broken back while working in the mines. Consequently,[www.Sentencedict.com] he spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair.
41 It has been the largest sustained fall in unemployment in the history of this country.
42 He sustained an injury to his spine when he fell off his horse.
43 We must make a sustained effort to get this task finished this week.
44 Sustained nuclear fusion is the holy grail of the power industry.
45 She used the article to make a sustained assault on her former political allies.
46 His request to be release on probation has not been sustained .
47 Bats are the only mammals to have wings and to achieve sustained flight.
48 "I very much regret the injuries he sustained," he said.
49 One rescue worker caught in the explosion sustained severe burns.
50 A seventeen-year-old tourist died late last night of injuries sustained in yesterday'sbomb blast.
51 He sustained serious neck injuries after he broke someone's fall.
52 Damages are not designed to punish the person in breach, but to compensate for the loss sustained.
53 The thought of seeing her again was all that sustained me.
54 The luckless defender, Mark Emery, sustained his third injury of the season.
55 These low birth rates were sustained for twenty years.
56 According to some reports, both sides sustained heavy casualties.
57 No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking. Voltaire 
58 His home sustained some damage, but mostly remained intact.
59 Per capita food consumption was sustained but not increased.
60 But nothing sustained and organised of this kind was ever contemplated in London.
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