Sentence examples for seemed as solid from inspiring English sources

The Soviet bloc stretched out to the east, and seemed as solid as a rock.

Since the Better Homes and Gardens magazine has been around for decades, the choice seemed as solid as a rotary phone, appropriate for a technophobe like me.

He worked at the Indianapolis construction company that had been founded by her family in 1875, and his life seemed as solid as the masses of concrete that went into the company's huge projects.

Ms. Nigro said she had been in touch with a Wall Street executive who was divorced within the last year, ending a 17-year marriage that once seemed as solid as his investment portfolio.

Christie's is auctioning art (from Lucian Freud to Gary Hume) and ephemera (from metal signs to the collected works of Dickens) that once adorned the British and European offices of a bank that seemed as solid as they get for more than 100 years.

The first season of "Downton Abbey" made astute observations about a social order that seemed as solid as Lord Grantham's stately home, but was, in fact, under a great deal of pressure and primed to break apart.

Despite their year of little work, their 11-year marriage seems as solid as their spacious five-bedroom Colonial home.

The old rituals are so far removed from our glib media world that they seem as solid as the hills and boulders of Arizona itself.

And the new ones seem as solid as a rock – James Corden and his partner Julia have asked her and David to be godparents to their new baby, Max.

Mr. Cacheris suggested that the government's case might not seem as solid as it appeared, saying that prosecutors "always talk like they have a great case, but we'll see".

She knows her party's manifesto inside-out, and at moments like this her convictions seem as solid as month-old Bara Brith – something I hadn't anticipated when, before the interview, we were having a friendly chat about my recent trip to Cuba.