1. sustained - Adjective
2. sustained - Verb
4. sustained - Adjective Satellite
of Sustain
Held up to a certain pitch, degree, or level; uniform; as, sustained pasion; a sustained style of writing; a sustained note in music.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAn insult is either sustained or destroyed, not by the disposition of those who insult, but by the disposition of those who bear it. John Chrysostom
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. Robert Louis Stevenson
Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support. Paul Samuelson
The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him what he needed to live. The more time he spent in a cell, the stronger he would get. Everybody knew who he was now. Don DeLillo
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence. Jewish Proverb
Cow's diets have never been sustained on grass grown in may. Finnish Proverb