Sentence examples similar to modest but sturdy from inspiring English sources

Friedrich returned to Kallstadt in 1901 and a year later married a local girl, Elizabeth Christ, who lived across the street from his family's home — a modest but sturdy-looking house still standing today.

Like me, it was small but sturdy, thrifty and sensible, unglamorous but reliable.

Find a small but sturdy box for the post.

Something cheap but sturdy.

Appaloosas are of light but sturdy conformation.

Green's treatment is sentimental but sturdy.

They are rubber bands, but sturdy ones.

Most are slow but sturdy vehicles, financed by deposits.

He was not particularly tall but sturdy, strong-looking.

Pinched but sturdy, she slices her vowels without overdoing it.

Choose a narrow, but sturdy deciduous tree.