STURDY in a Sentence

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39 example sentences for STURDY, such as:

1. The camera was mounted on a sturdy tripod.
2. We need several sturdy men to push this car.
3. He felt a quiet manhood, nonassertive but of sturdy and strong blood.
4. More than 3,600 Filipinos rode out the typhoon in sturdy school buildings, town halls, and churches.
5. The sturdy old man, whom he had left so short a time before, was gone, then, and this was all his epitaph.

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 Meanings and Examples of STURDY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sturdy
 a.  robust; strong; substantially made or constructed
Classic Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
1  His thickset torso was supported by short sturdy legs, always incased in the finest leather boots procurable and always planted wide apart like a swaggering small boy's.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  They were a kindly people, courteous, generous, filled with abounding good nature, but sturdy, virile, easy to anger.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  There are plenty of sturdy Union patriots who are not averse to picking up money selling goods to the Confederacy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  She straightened her tired back and, looking over the browning autumn fields, she saw next year's crop standing sturdy and green, acre upon acre.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
5  She had short sturdy legs and wide eyes of Irish blue and a small square jaw that went with a determination to have her own way.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
6  He was about a year old, and a sturdy little fellow, with soft fat legs, and a round ball of a stomach, and eyes as black as coals.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
7  Notwithstanding the symptoms of habitual suspicion, his countenance was not only without guile, but at the moment at which he is introduced, it was charged with an expression of sturdy honesty.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
8  Doctrine or no doctrine," said the sturdy woodsman, "'tis the belief of knaves, and the curse of an honest man.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12
9  Uncas permitted his eyes to turn for an instant on the sturdy countenance of the speaker, but he neither spoke nor gave any indication of repentance.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12
10  The scout, remembering only his own sturdy and iron nature, had probably exacted a task that David, under no circumstances, could have performed.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22
11  They paused to permit the longing and lingering gaze of the sturdy woodsman, and when it was ended, the body was enveloped, never to be unclosed again.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
12  He felt a quiet manhood, nonassertive but of sturdy and strong blood.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
13  It was, indeed, high time that someone capable of giving advice and help should come to the aid of the sturdy old farmer and his adopted daughter.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
14  The sturdy old man, whom he had left so short a time before, was gone, then, and this was all his epitaph.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
15  It happened that Jessie and Bluebell had both whelped soon after the hay harvest, giving birth between them to nine sturdy puppies.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
Example Sentence:
1  The camera was mounted on a sturdy tripod.
2  We need several sturdy men to push this car.
3  More than 3,600 Filipinos rode out the typhoon in sturdy school buildings, town halls, and churches.