firmness

Example Sentences

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

From Salon • Mar. 21, 2026

Even if the call had been intimidating, the judge wrote in his ruling, he was not convinced that such a call “would have chilled a person of ordinary firmness from exercising their First Amendment rights.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026

Still, nit-pickers noticed that the benign CPI print was lowered by a sharp drop in used-car prices, which Deutsche Bank economists note offset broad-based firmness elsewhere.

From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026

On the other side, the edge lacked firmness, causing you to slide off when sitting or lying down.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 26, 2026

He said it with such firmness, we knew his words were laid plank on plank to obscure the marker we had seen.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson