firmness

Example Sentences

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Tomatoes are also best added without their watery pulp to maintain firmness.

From Salon • Mar. 21, 2026

Instead, some water filled in around me, but I didn’t feel a firmness that gave the sensation of being tightly held or suspended.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

Consumer Reports says shoppers should consider firmness level, durability, breathability, stability, certifications and support.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 26, 2026

Norway has been calm, with ice-hard firmness, in its defence of Greenland and Denmark and collective security in the Arctic.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026

But I did not do so, for I had always obeyed my mother— whose love for me was as certain as the firmness of the sacred earth beneath my moccasins.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac