rock-ribbed

Example Sentences

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Considering what awaits them in dealership service bays, I understand why consumers would want to future-proof their sanity with the rock-ribbed V8.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

Bacharach and David’s first hit with Warwick can still startle you with its blend of romantic desperation and rock-ribbed defiance.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2023

McCarthy met his nemesis in the person of Margaret Chase Smith, a rock-ribbed Republican from Skowhegan, Maine.

From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2022

Not just any river of ice, but a tidewater glacier that descended all the way from tall, snowy mountains down to the sea where it calved blue minarets into a rock-ribbed fjord.

From Scientific American • Nov. 11, 2021

They convinced themselves that Adams was the enemy, and then all the evidence fell in place around that rock-ribbed, if highly questionable, conviction.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis