buttress
Example Sentences
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Millions will be spent to regild the hulking Art Deco statues that buttress Arlington Memorial Bridge.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
That move showed discipline and helped buttress the case by Netflix management that Warner was nice to have, but not a need to have.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 28, 2026
But even when things get shaky, Seyfried is there to buttress the film with a truly inhuman strength.
From Salon • Jan. 31, 2026
From vocalisations to food intake, social interactions to rhythmic beating on trees, known as buttress drumming, they note down everything.
From Barron's • Jan. 15, 2026
My red shoes are off, my legs tucked up underneath me on the chair, surrounded by a buttress of red skirt, true, but tucked nonetheless, as at a campfire, of earlier and more picnic days.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
Vocabulary lists containing buttress
The Tragedy of Macbeth
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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Built To Last: Architectural Parlance
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