Sentence example with the word 'mainstay'

mainstay

abettor, backbone, bracket, cradle, friend at court, lend support, promoter, sectary, stalwart, sustain, votary

Definition n. a prominent supporter

Last update: June 27, 2015


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A mother is the mainstay of a happy home.   [Please select]

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That this doctrine was a mainstay of Jewish faith in those very days of exile which gave the Sabbath a new importance for the faithful.   [Please select]

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Beaver was the fur of furs, and the mainstay of the trade.   [Please select]

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Wallace would show up in several other events, for he was the mainstay of Paul's contesting delegation.   [Please select]

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In the beginning man's struggle was for life and the mainstay of life was food.   [Please select]

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America, the new county, became in 1918 the salvation of starving Belgium, the mainstay of England, the hope of France.   [Please select]

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There were also a general shop and a number of very pleasant cottages, each marked with the Mainstay crest.   [Please select]

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It is with profound regret that we cannot point to Harwood as a football hero or the mainstay of the crew.   [Please select]

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