Sentence examples for buttress of from inspiring English sources

But it was a flying buttress of piffle.

A proper, rewarding walk via Barber Booth, river Noe and the mighty buttress of Crowden Tower.

The unity of each is the essential buttress of the other.

John Kenneth Galbraith called the income tax "the great buttress of income inequality".

Tourism, a buttress of the economy upon which an estimated 15 million people depend, remains in a tailspin.

Suzy Buttress, of Basingstoke in Hampshire, said she spotted the celestial body while driving along the M3.

Eight massive piers connect the buttresses of the dome area to the floor of the cathedral.

He was a tall, shambling man, with a bald pate bookended by buttresses of reddish curls.

As technology advanced, dams with thin buttresses of reinforced concrete supporting an inclined upstream face were built.

The climactic ensemble of forgiveness, in which the voices become buttresses of a weightless cathedral, is all the more stupendous for having risen up from such gritty ground.

The choir (13th century), which is one of the tallest and handsomest in France, is exteriorly supported by buttresses of an exceptionally light and elegant design.