strengthener
Example Sentences
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For one thing, “very” is a fraud, masquerading as a strengthener when it merely wheedles and pleads.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 12, 2022
A doctor suggested ballet as a strengthener when she complained of pain in the arches of her feet, and the household mobilized to make sure she got to lessons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2021
That acted as a strengthener, while continuing to draw chlorides out of the material.”
From Washington Times ● Aug. 7, 2015
Back of this more formal religion, the Church often stands as a real conserver of morals, a strengthener of family life, and the final authority on what is Good and Right.
From The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
A thin plank fayed at the head-rails as a strengthener.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
