sterling
Example Sentences
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In different degrees they provide a sterling example of American “soft power,” projecting uplifting and inspiring images to audiences across the world in the postwar years.
Her ashen hair sits in a quivering pile atop her head and her spectacles, if not teetering on the end of her sniffer, hang from a sterling chain to rest upon her ample bosom.
From Literature
“That’s part of the fun,” Van Hulsen says as she brings over a sterling silver ice cream scoop engraved with “There’s nothing wrong with me that ice cream can’t fix” in barely perceptible cursive.
From Los Angeles Times
On paper, it all looks fairly obvious—a team that finished the regular season 14-3 against another 14-3 team, two ascendant quarterbacks, two sterling defenses.
U.K. government bond yields rose and sterling fell amid reports that an independent lawmaker is poised to step down and open the way for a potential challenge to Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
