Sentence examples for mainstay has from inspiring English sources

The construction business, once a mainstay, has withered.

[C9.] Seeking Younger Drivers at Cadillac Cadillac's mainstay has been the Cadillac DeVille.

The Scotch pine, once a holiday mainstay, has now fallen from favor.

(Bob Sheppard, the ninety-eight-year-old mainstay, has fallen ill with a bronchial infection).

Since the paper's early days, an editorial mainstay has been the defense of Polish-Americans against perceived knocks.

Oil production, the country's mainstay, has plateaued in recent years, and other exports have not picked up the slack.

Its previous mainstay had been football season, when it is also called "tailgate toss".

Ellis is a musical theatre mainstay, having also played major roles in We Will Rock You, Oliver!, and Les Misérables.

Those jets, which were Comair's mainstay, have fallen out of favour with big airlines as jet-fuel prices have increased.

BYD's sales of gasoline-powered cars, the company's commercial mainstay, have wilted this spring as Chinese buyers have moved toward more expensive but better-quality cars from its rivals.

Lovers of ceviche, a Peruvian mainstay, have six choices, as well as a fancy ceviche sampler (suited to sharing) with four types of raw marinated fish, shrimp and octopus.