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Six example sentences with sustained, each labelled with its topic.
Marathon pace demands a sustained effort of two hours, which feels nothing like the sharp agony of a sprint.
Fitness
The organist held one sustained chord for thirty seconds while the choir filed in behind the screen.
Music
Ireland saw sustained growth across two decades, quarter after quarter, before the property market finally broke.
Economics
Forty minutes of sustained full-court pressure wore the visitors down, and they turned the ball over nine times after halftime.
Basketball
Investors want sustained growth month after month, not a single viral spike that fades before the next funding round.
Startups
Three years of sustained drought dropped the reservoir below its intake pipes for the first time on record.
Environment
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