Sentence examples for he was sturdy from inspiring English sources
He was sturdy in his defence.
He was sturdy and strong — listed at 6 feet 6 inches, he actually stood about two inches shorter but weighed 230 pounds — and had led the nation in rebounding the year before.
When Wilson was being questioned about his height and weight (5 feet 9 inches and 205 pounds) and was asked whether he was sturdy enough to block for Manning, he smiled and insisted he was "country strong".
But he was sturdy enough to finish the 4-day, 300-kilometer Paris-to-Brussels walk in May; participated in the recent 7-day, 300-kilometer walk from Schleswig, Germany, to Viborg, Denmark; and will swim 3.5 kilometers across the Sea of Galilee for the 48th time this fall as part of Israel's largest amateur sports event.
"He's sturdy, he's 20 pounds more.
Like most cowboys, he's sturdy, serious and polite.
He is sturdy defensively and, unlike many American center backs in the past, he can pass well.
He is sturdy enough that, in times past, coaches might have used him as a blocking fullback.
By Stanley Jones The New Yorker, November 26, 1927 P. 93 Possible conversation to parents who have an ordinary child: say he is sturdy, looks like his mother, that he has spiritual eyes, etc.
"And although he's friendly, you can see he's sturdy and strong.
Everything he wrote was sturdy and useful, and he kept pushing his research forward, extending himself, and producing his boldest and broadest books — 'What is Honor?' (2008) and 'The Humanist Comedy' (2014) — deep in retirement, long after most of us have hung up our sneakers," says Langdon Hammer, chair of Yale's Department of English.
