Similar words: distressing, buttress, distressingly, caressing, pressing, dressing, depressing, dressing down. Meaning: ['bʌtrɪs] n. a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building.
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1. It was decided to buttress the crumbling walls.
2. He was a buttress against extremism in the party.
3. The builders buttressed that wall with stone structures.
4. She buttressed her argument with solid facts.
5. The buttresses are subjected to constant stress.
6. You need more facts to buttress up your argument.
7. More government spending is needed to buttress industry.
8. The arguments for change are buttressed by events elsewhere.
9. The evidence seemed to buttress their argument.
10. The sharp increase in crime seems to buttress the argument for more police officers on the street.
11. Try to buttress the points you make in these chapters with some details.
12. Between the chapels radiate the forests of flying buttresses.
13. Those at Canterbury are among the earliest datable flying buttresses.
14. For such a man to assault the Government citadel, garrisoned by aristocrats, and buttressed by wealth, seemed mere madness.
15. The whole playground was surrounded by a four foot high brick wall with buttresses at about every ten feet.
16. It reformed the judicial system, buttressing its independence, and introduced parliamentary scrutiny of important public sector contracts and appointments.
17. However, the sites are usually near a buttress or a fallen bole.
18. The large barn, supported by stone buttresses, may have been the charcoal store.
19. The dominance of abstract expressionism has been buttressed by an impressive degree of partisanship and an illusion of consensus.
20. The walls are 5 feet thick, with a buttressed wooden walkway just behind the battlements.
21. I remember leaving a ledge to abseil down Scafell's East Buttress once only to realise I was falling out of control.sentencedict.com/buttressing.html
22. TREASURY secretary Ken Henry is buttressing Treasurer Wayne Swan's warnings that high interest rates and slowing global growth are hurting Australia's economy and federal revenue.
23. That is in turn buttressing the euro against the dollar.
24. If coastal ice shelves buttressing the west Antarctic ice sheet continue to disintegrate, the sheet could disgorge into the ocean, raising sea levels by several metres in a century.
25. Improed passie mechanics may result in part from a mechanical buttressing of the infarcted wall by the transplanted cells.
26. A timely report from an independent prosecutor would surely be helpful in buttressing and justifying that order.
27. New discoveries about the way Kilauea is slipping can be easily generalized to other island volcanoes that may not have similar buttressing structures.
28. By 1981, it was reputedly the most profitable casino in the world, buttressing much of the Playboy empire with its gambling revenues.
29. The Namibian government, which owns the wreck and its contents under international law, will stop buttressing the walls on October 10, 2008.
30. When did the first man or woman think about buttressing such a habitat using tree limbs?
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