Sentence examples for her backbone from inspiring English sources

Her voice is low and warm; her backbone is steel.

We are not sure of Ayat's fate; her backbone is broken.

In any case, she supplies Cora with reasonably sharp banter and gives her backbone.

The knobby outline of her backbone emerges and we see a personality no longer self-censored by love for a judgmental husband.

And then I couldn't help bringing up the issue of how she had insisted that she could feel bumps on both sides of her backbone, when she actually meant that they were clustered on one side, and how she had insisted that they didn't hurt when she was actually in agony.

The scrounging and ambitious socialite Lily Bart (Gillian Anderson) finds she can bring herself neither to marry only for money nor to marry the man who loves her, an only modestly well-off lawyer named Lawrence Selden Eric Stoltzz); her desire to live up to Selden's sense of her integrity helps strengthen her backbone just enough to undo her.

I wanted to make her an intelligent girl who could make her own choices, who had her own will and who had her own backbone – having that behind her was really important to me.

His hands play lightly over her shoulder, and his lips go down her bare backbone right to her waist.

She is her generation's Anne Revere: unsmiling but optimistic in the face of evils that would overwhelm a woman who lacked her Yankee backbone and thorny Puritan streak.

In a statement read after the judge handed down the conviction, Ursula Ward, Lloyd's mother, called her son the "backbone" of her family.

I loved her showing some backbone and I loved her realization that he is the problem.