Meaning → video example → shadowing
English word
sustain
C1Academic AWL-5Frequent NGSL-3to provide enough of what somebody/something needs in order to live or exist
Real video examples
See where your sentence appears
The free preview is not the sentence containing your word.
We only have one planet, and our ability to share and sustain it together will dictate the viability of our collective sustainable future.
Ban Ki-moon's Harvard Kennedy School Graduation Address (2023)
From one sentence to the full lesson
Bilingual subtitles · repeat a sentence · shadowing · word bank
Tap a word in the lesson, then save it to your word bank.
Open the lesson →Print the lesson as a PDF
Preview and print the first 10 sentences free. The full handout requires Pro.
Preview printable lesson →More real video examples
Just talking in terms of rough orders of magnitude, in order to create a self-sustaining city on Mars, I think you'll need something on the order of a thousand ships.
on the Moon or a base on Mars—and particularly if we attempt to make a self-sustaining base...
Remember sustain through real videos
LingoTube turns TED / YouTube videos into sentence-by-sentence bilingual lessons: synced subtitles, tap any word for meaning and pronunciation, save to your word bank with spaced repetition.
Try the first 30 sentences of this lessonThe free preview is not the sentence containing your word.
