Sentence examples for sturdy and dependable from inspiring English sources

I needed something more sturdy and dependable.

By contrast, a manual handbrake is sturdy and dependable – rather like old Volvos.

To those who know her later in life, she's as sturdy and dependable as a raincoat, the perfect judge's wife.

The result, several astronauts said, is that they have confidence in the Soyuz, which is as sturdy and dependable as a Kalashnikov rifle.

The rigs I used for farm work as a teenager and to cross mountain ranges as a grown-up were as sturdy and dependable as Detroit's smaller vehicles were flimsy, and it was impossible, when behind their wheels, not to feel a steely exultation that went beyond the personal.

The dollar that had been so sturdy and dependable became what so many other weakened currencies became throughout history, a catalyst of political change and the election of 1980 ushered in the greatest change in government economic policy in the postwar era.

They have a steady and dependable yield.

Think of Volvo and words such as "substantial" and "dependable" and "sturdy" come to mind, synonyms essentially for "weighty".

The ensuing sturdier, sexually bonded pairs with helpful and dependable fathers would greatly improve the reproductive output of early human mothers, through earlier weaning, more numerous pregnancies and simultaneously dependent children, but also thanks to the egalitarian solidarity of other mothers (Hrdy 2009) and grandmothers (O'Connell et al. 1999).

He was fast and dependable.

Olivia is consistent and dependable.