STRENGTH in a Sentence

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For STRENGTH, below is one of 292 sentences:
Mother had always been just as she was, a pillar of strength, a fount of wisdom, the one person who knew the answers to everything.

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 Meanings and Examples of STRENGTH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
strength
 n.  the quality or state of being physically strong
 n.  the degree of intensity of a feeling or belief
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Mother had always been just as she was, a pillar of strength, a fount of wisdom, the one person who knew the answers to everything.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  He put out his hand toward her and, as he did, she slapped him across the face with all the strength she had.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  Atlanta considered him the root of all strength and all wisdom and it was not strange that he had absorbed something of their belief.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  Something in his look challenged her spirit and brought her strength back in a surge of dislike.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  But God would give me strength to bear it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
6  Moreover, many of them were dying, dying swiftly, silently, having little strength left to combat the blood poisoning, gangrene, typhoid and pneumonia which had set in before they could reach Atlanta and a doctor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
7  His was such an easy, graceful strength, lazy as a panther stretching in the sun, alert as a panther to spring and strike.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
8  Mrs. Meade managed to smile and wave until he had passed and then she leaned her head on the back of Scarlett's shoulder for a moment as though her strength had suddenly left her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
9  When she had finished it, a measure of strength came back to her and with the strength came again the pricking of fear.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
10  For the first time, she realized that this was Ashley's baby and suddenly wished with all the strength left in her that he were her baby, hers and Ashley's.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
11  Suddenly she hated him, hated him with a strength that momentarily overpowered her fear, made it seem petty and small.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
12  But she had promised and now they belonged to her, even as Wade and Prissy belonged to her, and she must struggle and fight for them as long as she had strength or breath.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
13  Climbing back into the wagon required all the strength Scarlett could muster, but at last it was done and she picked up the lines.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
14  He said she had undermined her strength.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
15  It seemed to penetrate even her ice-locked heart and strength came coursing back into her body.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
Example Sentence: (82 in 6 pages)
16  She has the build and strength of a natural athlete.
17  She has always been encouraged to swim to build up the strength of her muscles.
18  It may take a few weeks for you to build up your strength again.
19  Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.
20  I draw strength from the millions of women who have faced this challenge successfully.
21  His handling of the crisis attested to his strength of character.
22  They had to check the strength of the seat attachments to the floor of the plane.
23  Cast iron cannot compare with steel in strength.
24  She is a pillar of strength in a crisis.
25  Her main strength is her critical thinking ability.
26  The secretary of defense briefed the president on the enemy's strength.
27  The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire, the size of your dream, and how you handle disappointment along the way.
28  The government promises to restore the economy to full strength.
29  Colours like red convey a sense of energy and strength.
30  The alcoholic strength of brandy far exceeds that of wine.