Sentence example with the word 'buttress'

buttress

abutment, bandeau, bracket, column, fulcrum, jock, pier, rest, stave, sustain, validate

Definition n. a support usually of stone or brick

Last update: August 29, 2015


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The government's fiscal policy acts as a buttress against inflation.   [Please select]

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Claudio’s professor told him he needed to do some more research to find data to be a buttress for his theory.   [Please select]

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While other families were struggling during the Great Depression, my grandmother was the buttress of her immigrant family as she constantly encouraged them not to give up on their dreams.   [Please select]

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The buttress is the only remaining point worthy of notice.   [Please select]

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He indicated a gap in the buttress of mountains rolling back from the coast.   [Please select]

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Between the buttress roots of a tall tree was a crude shelter of palm leaves.   [Please select]

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Jehane moved swiftly out from the shadow of the buttress and confronted him.   [Please select]

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The Archduke was punctilious; Richard with his petulant foot stamped on every little point he laboured, or else, like a buttress, let him labour them in vain.   [Please select]

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Keep and buttress, tower and arch, mullioned window and battlement, in a fiery furnace leaped on high, like the outburst of a volcano.   [Please select]

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