keystones
Example Sentences
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One can’t make a list like this without including the keystones of modern detective fiction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025
“These are the basic keystones of character,” he says emphatically.
From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2023
Their squad has remained deep and strong despite the two-year hiatus, with England keystones Maro Itoje, Owen Farrell, Jamie George and Billy Vunipola still in place.
From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2022
The island’s semiconductor industry is an increasingly indispensable node in the global supply chains for smartphones, cars and other keystones of modern life.
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2022
The sun and moon on each 47 side of the cross are, as we shall see in the fifth Chapter, constantly employed on the keystones of Byzantine arches.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), by Ruskin, John