STAUNCH in a Sentence

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12 example sentences for STAUNCH, such as:

1. He gained a reputation as being a staunch defender/supporter of civil rights.
2. While I advanced in friendship and intimacy with Mr. Dick, I did not go backward in the favour of his staunch friend, my aunt.

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 Meanings and Examples of STAUNCH
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staunch
 a.  firm and dependable especially in loyalty
 v.  stop the flow of a liquid
Classic Sentence:
1  But then, a divorce was unthinkable; and Ellen and Gerald, staunch Catholics that they were, would never permit her to marry a divorced man.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
2  "'We are staunch Union sympathizers,'" mimicked the old lady, twanging the words through her long thin nose.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
3  A splendid fellow--one of the staunch Union patriots from whom I used to buy muskets and hoop skirts for the Confederacy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
4  When I am a wife, I mean to be just as staunch myself; and I wish my friends in general would be so too.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
5  You have a friend in me, Nance; a staunch friend.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
6  Our provisions held out well, our ship was staunch, and our crew all in good health; but we lay in the utmost distress for water.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I.
7  While I advanced in friendship and intimacy with Mr. Dick, I did not go backward in the favour of his staunch friend, my aunt.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15. I MAKE ANOTHER BEGINNING
8  He was staunchly Presbyterian, even though his family were Catholic, and the thought of his daughter becoming a nun was even worse than that of her marrying Gerald O'Hara.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
9  She, a member of an old and staunchly Confederate family, a planter's family, had gone over to the enemy and by so doing had brought shame on every family in the County.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
10  "I'd be very glad to ask her in wedlock, if she'd hae me and take the risk of her wild dark eyes ill-wishing me," said Grandfer Cantle staunchly.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People
Example Sentence:
1  He gained a reputation as being a staunch defender/supporter of civil rights.
2  Many voters are staunch anti-federalists, opposed to the concept of regional government.