Sentence examples for a big sturdy from inspiring English sources

"I remember her as a big, sturdy, but very elderly woman with heavy, black lace-up shoes.

A big, sturdy box containing hard-bound volumes, pamphlets and a tabloid houses Ware's demanding, melancholy and magnificent graphic novel about the inhabitants of a Chicago building.

"If you take it off the rifle, it becomes just a big sturdy knife, for cutting into car accidents, seat belts … It would've been probably less controversial if we put 'big sturdy knife' instead of 'bayonet'".

When he walks the hot concrete sidewalk along Canal Street, pushing through air that clings to his skin like cellophane, he hides from the July sun beneath a big, sturdy, black umbrella.

Mr. Love, a chef in Fort Worth (and briefly in New York several years ago) has put his name on a hefty spatula with a 4-by-6-inch surface that will not be daunted by a whole flank steak, and a big, sturdy but gracefully curved slotted fish turner, able to lift a striped bass fillet.

It's a big, sturdy box, containing 14 different "easily misplaced elements" — a hard-bound volume or two, pamphlets and leaflets of various dimensions, a monstrously huge tabloid à la century-old Sunday newspaper comics sections and a folded board of the sort that might once have come with a fancy game.

They want to replace the viaduct with a bigger, sturdier elevated highway.

Ms. Castillo had long dreamed of a bigger, sturdier house, but three months ago something happened that finally made it possible: she landed a job at one of the world's most unusual garment factories.

Documents filed with the city of Hawthorne call for a bigger, sturdier garage along the house's property line, near the tunnel's path along 120th Street.

For $100, you can buy a pair of big, sturdy armoires.

Just because a tree is big, sturdy, and in the right location doesn't necessarily mean it's fit for climbing.