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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of solid
Adjective
While the Wendy Stretch Sox are a solid pick for summer travel, Hey Dude has other travel-ready shoe styles to choose from. Rachel Trujillo, Travel + Leisure, 22 May 2025 Martha Stewart’s collection is teeming with solid wood nightstands, small space-friendly end tables, velvet swivel chairs, and more. Ali Faccenda, People.com, 22 May 2025 This is a solid, dangerous team under Silva there is a lot to be proud of. The Athletic Uk Staff, New York Times, 22 May 2025 Geno Auriemma goes back into the portal and adds solid addition to the 2025-26 backcourt CT mayor resigning position for ‘personal and professional reasons’ CT was forced to buy 30,000 bottles of water. Jessika Harkay, Hartford Courant, 22 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for solid
Recent Examples of Synonyms for solid
Adjective
  • Even with Bailey singing her lovestruck heart out, Rob Marshall's redo doesn't make the same refreshing splash as the 1989 animated classic but gets points for trying with a more logical narrative.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 26 May 2025
  • Therefore, the logical starting point might be to first to prop this thing at least back up to respectability.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 24 May 2025
Adjective
  • Sandoval has received some pay bumps, including a temporary $10,000-a-year bonus for Hawaii special education teachers designed to alleviate shortages in that and other hard-to-staff areas.
    Alia Wong, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The five-year commemoration of that day is particularly hard for Jennifer, who usually shies away from talking publicly about her loss.
    Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2023
Adjective
  • The women's brains showed a clear divide between the areas of the brain activated by self and non-self MHCs.
    Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2013
  • An inspector’s notes also stated there were cardboard containers on the floor, a non-self closing restroom door, no training documentation for the staff.
    Pam McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 28 Feb. 2023
Adjective
  • According to research from Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit that advocates for gun control, strong gun control laws are correlated with fewer gun deaths.
    Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2023
  • This results in a charge imbalance that builds up an electric field strong enough to trigger flashes of lightning.
    National Geographic, National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
Adjective
  • The problem with inland water Environmental scientists have a reliable way of monitoring the water quality at popular coastal beaches, often by taking samples on a daily or weekly basis.
    Angela Haupt, Time, 23 May 2025
  • To be fair to les frères Dardennes, there is a reliable level of unshowy competence as well as an integrity to their insistence on embedding with unglamorous, recognizable people.
    Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • In units where reliability is the most important, for example, consider keeping power centralized.
    Stephanie Dillon, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
  • Newsom has said the tunnel project is vital to improving the reliability of water deliveries as climate change shrinks California’s snowpack and alters the timing of runoff.
    Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2025
Adjective
  • Under coach Manolo González, Espanyol has just placed a reasonable 14th in La Liga.
    Henry Flynn, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
  • Like when Jesse makes the perfectly reasonable decision not to mount a doomed attempt to save a cultist when they're outnumbered by WLF members.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 27 May 2025
Adjective
  • The Verdict Lord Howe Island might very well be one of the most special places on planet Earth—and that’s some stiff competition.
    Christopher Cameron, Robb Report, 22 May 2025
  • What might’ve remained two camps in stiff politeness became a collective.
    Sara Hussain, Vogue, 22 May 2025

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“Solid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/solid. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.

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