ROBUST in a Sentence

Learn ROBUST from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

36 example sentences for ROBUST, such as:

1. The company is taking a more robust approach to management.
2. It was a typically robust performance by the Foreign Secretary.
3. He was genteel, effeminate, graceful, robust, sluggish, ferocious.
4. He was a man of medium stature, thickset and robust, in the prime of life.
5. The keyhole could be seen, and the robust latch, deeply sunk in the iron staple.

Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Input your word:
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of ROBUST
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
robust
 a.  vigorous; full of health and strength; vigorous
Classic Sentence: (30 in 3 pages)
1  In his clear glance, in his firm tone, in the robust movement of his shoulders, there was something calculated to disconcert death.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
2  He was a man of medium stature, thickset and robust, in the prime of life.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
3  He was intelligent, robust, adroit; he did his best; the master seemed pleased.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES
4  Fauchelevent took in his aged, trembling, and wrinkled hands Jean Valjean's two robust hands, and stood for several minutes as though incapable of speaking.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX—THE MAN WITH THE BELL
5  The man appeared to be about sixty years of age; he seemed sad and serious; his whole person presented the robust and weary aspect peculiar to military men who have retired from the service.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAME...
6  He was genteel, effeminate, graceful, robust, sluggish, ferocious.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASS...
7  He was half out when six robust fists seized him and dragged him back energetically into the hovel.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP
8  The head was held erect with a sort of robust grace, and beneath the hat the pale profile of a young man could be made out in the dim light.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAI...
9  The keyhole could be seen, and the robust latch, deeply sunk in the iron staple.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES T...
10  It is seldom that any man, unless he is very full-blooded, breaks out in this way through emotion, so I hazarded the opinion that the criminal was probably a robust and ruddy-faced man.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
11  The evil side of my nature, to which I had now transferred the stamping efficacy, was less robust and less developed than the good which I had just deposed.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
12  His legs were very robust, but shorter than legs of good proportions should have been.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
13  He was still handsome and robust, though just a little afraid of the new world that had sprung up around him.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
14  The woman was young, but of a robust and hardy make, as she need have been to bear the weight of the heavy bundle which was strapped to her back.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
15  Man is more robust than woman, but he is not longer lived; which exactly explains my view of the nature of their attachments.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
Example Sentence:
1  Without a modern, robust copyright regime, companies are unwilling to invest in innovative new digital services in this country.
2  Still, despite the robust growth, if you listen closely to the analysts and bankers, you can pick up a low buzz of concern over some areas of the economy.
3  Those levels are expected to remain robust this year, said the ratings firm, but be somewhat below 2008.
4  The company is taking a more robust approach to management.
5  It was a typically robust performance by the Foreign Secretary.
6  In the decisions we have to make about Europe, we have to defend our position very robustly indeed.