Sentence examples for i buttressed from inspiring English sources

Several times, the whole thing collapsed – so I buttressed each leaf with another strip of red card.

But in 2007 I took the bait and ventured that every form of violence, when measured objectively, was in decline – a claim I buttressed with 100 graphs in my 2011 book The Better Angels of Our Nature.

Religion is one buttress.

I should have buttressed the theory with larger examples.

Staring at its angled buttresses I often wonder what it would be like to wirewalk between them; to look out across London elevated above the bustle of life on the ground with nothing but a straight in front of me.

And to add data to anecdote, I'll further buttress my view with this Gallup survey, cited by Daniel Larison, which shows that at present only 3 percent of Republican primary voters have a "strongly unfavorable" view of Mitt Romney, compared with 73 percent who feel "favorable" or "strongly favorable" toward the former Massachusetts governor.

Reaching the foot of Upper Tor Buttress I sit on my rucksack to catch my breath, the image of the lizard fresh in my mind – poised, limbs like springs, ready for the next move, like Arthur, on the rocks above me, a creature in her element.

And Blasey's request that the FBI investigate her charges, I concluded, further buttresses her credibility.

In my limited experience of witnessing makeshift buttresses, I've seen more robust structures than a set of drawers precariously balanced on top of a mattress, but I didn't feel I was in any position to start cussing up their valiant effort against the council's hired goons. .

I posited, and have buttressed, "triage theory" (1,2): metabolism responds to moderate deficiency of an essential vitamin or mineral (V/M) so that the scarce V/M is preferentially retained by V/M-dependent proteins necessary for short-term survival and reproduction.

I especially liked the buttress roots, fern and vine.