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
But daylight is a great strengthener of the nerves; the figure no longer appalled him—a man who had long learned to look with Science's calm eye upon the dead.
From A Simpleton by Charles Reade
Softener and strengthener of men, Freedom, not won by the vain, Not to be courted in play, Not to be kept without pain.
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell
