sturdy
Example Sentences
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The labor market, meanwhile, might be less sturdy than the report this past week suggested.
For the planners, the batch-cookers, the Sunday-afternoon optimists: make a few big, sturdy sides once and let them earn their keep all week.
From Salon
Ancient Greek amphitheaters may fall into ruins, but Greek tragedies—the few that survived the vicissitudes of history—have remained sturdy pillars of theater.
She tried to be patient, Jiller had said, but Rowan was so different from herself,'and from his father, and even from sturdy little Annad, that it was sometimes very hard.
From Literature
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Based on the skull's size and comparisons with related fossils, researchers estimate the animal was a sturdy four legged creature about a foot long.
From Science Daily
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