How to Use buttress in a Sentence

buttress

1 of 2 noun

• The buttresses stay small, but the rest of the root system sprawls out near the surface.
  — Kenneth Setzer, miamiherald, 20 July 2017
• The buttresses are one of many design details that turned out to be good for both the race and road car.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 6 July 2017
• Cherven’s medieval town—perched on a buttress of rock high above the river and the modern village.
  — Henry Wismayer, WSJ, 23 May 2018
• The whole point was to build an imperfect buttress for my own discomfort.
  — Daisy Alioto, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• The cushion is perfectly firm and the deep, walled-off arms function like buttresses.
  — Lauren Mechling, latimes.com, 13 June 2019
• When the roof is lowered, some riders can notice a bit of wind buffeting from the buttresses area.
  — Ann M. Job, The Seattle Times, 27 Apr. 2017
• At their base are permanent floating ice shelves that act as a buttress to the fast-flowing ice behind it.
  — Helen Regan, CNN, 15 Sep. 2020
• During the day, the mounds' outer buttresses heat up faster than their central chimneys.
  — National Geographic, 7 May 2018
• The combination of low debt and sufficient cash can act as a buttress against a downturn.
  — Paul Malloy, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2022
• He was attracted to the backyard view of the buttress, which looks more like a lush hillside than a strategy to keep landslides at bay.
  — Hannah Frystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2022
• Halvaesque limestone, discolored from age, stands in for the fondant-like décor: the tense buttresses rise and sprawl, sinew-like, up the walls.
  — Yuliya Komska, Smithsonian, 10 Oct. 2017
• There are sturdy buttress roots below and pen-thin palms towering above the forest canopy.
  — Mark Johanson, chicagotribune.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• The original buttresses were deemed at some point not strong enough and were replaced by larger ones in the 14th century.
  — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 19 Apr. 2019
• Smaller slides offer more options, such as walls, buttresses and drainage.
  — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 3 June 2017
• Luckily, Camelot has the Gothic flying buttresses of its songs to keep its structure sound.
  — Vulture, 13 Apr. 2023
• The ride will, for the first time, offer glimpses of the intricate steel framing that supports the mast, the backside of the aluminum buttresses and translucent panels that transmit the mast’s nighttime glow.
  — James S. Russell, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2019
• Lolla has four buttresses: rock (and its variables), hip-hop, pop and electronic.
  — Billboard Brazil, Billboard, 28 Sep. 2017
• Their trunks, ten to fifteen feet in diameter, were braced with massive buttresses and knees.
  — Douglas Preston, The New Yorker, 1 Jan. 2017
• Through the centuries, the cathedral’s windows were widened and the flying buttresses reconstructed.
  — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2023
• Through the centuries, the cathedral's windows were widened and the flying buttresses reconstructed.
  — Rick Noack, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2023
• The buttresses on the outside of the building are each topped by a mournful figure, while the bas-reliefs depict scenes from Australian campaigns at Gallipoli and the Western Front.
  — Smithsonian, 26 May 2017
• Here and there, Moorish spires and flying buttresses visible from the narrow streets invariably lead you to the centuries-old churches and palaces.
  — Monica Mendal, Vogue, 7 Mar. 2023
• Not since the medieval masons tried to render God in buttresses and vaults had so much stone been devoted to the assertion of permanence.
  — Edward Carr, 1843, 29 Aug. 2019
• The show, which opened on Broadway in 1988 and has never closed, takes its first post-pandemic bow not just as a monied buttress for the industry, but as a symbol for Broadway’s own endurance.
  — Michael Appler, Variety, 24 Oct. 2021
• Tulaczyk suspects the tongue of the Marmolada glacier in Italy had likely retreated, leaving the rest of the glacier on a steeper section without a buttress to hold it in place.
  — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 July 2022
• There’s also under-vault storage akin to that of the Honda Ridgeline, and there appear to be gear lockers in the rear buttresses, a storage location akin to the Rambox.
  — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 22 Nov. 2019
• By the end of World War I, most governments had come around to the idea that passports were an essential buttress of national security.
  — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
• At each corner of the mausoleum is a three-quarter column, also covered in the basket-weave pattern and slightly tilted inward to act as a buttress.
  — Judith H. Dobrzynski, WSJ, 4 May 2018
• Learning how other people live is not just travel’s chief pleasure but a sure buttress against age narrowing our minds.
  — Jane Harrigan, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Jan. 2023
• The Gothic style derived from the invention of the pointed, ribbed stone vault, so light that height could be achieved without mass, so strong that walls, relieved of their burden by buttresses, could be of glass rather than stone.
  — Bruce Dale, National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019

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buttress

2 of 2 verb

• The treaty will buttress the cause of peace.
• The theory has been buttressed by the results of the experiment.
• The facade, three walls buttressed by supports, is all that remains.
  — Giacomo Bologna, Baltimore Sun, 9 May 2023
• Hundreds of rivers snake across the country, the eighth-most populous in the world, buttressed in the south by the planet’s largest mangrove forest.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 7 May 2023
• Her left leg — mangled in the airstrike that killed her brother, sister and mother — was held in a cast buttressed by metal joints and rods.
  — Marc Smith, NBC News, 26 Jan. 2024
• The win was secured in the bottom of the eighth inning on the strength of two Red Sox pillars who have tried to buttress their crumbling offense all season.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2022
• There are also a few cases where the power of the brand is buttressed by the idea that some shows are better off without their stars doing press.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2023
• The Times published a portion of the papers, but only as excerpts to buttress its reporting.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2021
• Country star Maren Morris -- or any singer looking for a solid, ominous groove to buttress their next tell-off -- should scoop it up.
  — Anthony Cougar Miccio, Billboard, 28 Oct. 2021
• The Russian military said the bombers spent over 4½ hours in the air during the mission intended to buttress the countries' alliance.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 12 Nov. 2021
• Plus, the most compelling arguments for his campaign don’t come from bending over backward to buttress his case.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Dec. 2022
• During his 41-minute statement, Richards displayed a series of photographs and video footage from the night of the shootings to buttress his narrative.
  — Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2021
• In addition, taking stock of your strengths will buttress the negative emotions that may arise in times of crisis.
  — John Baldoni, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
• Greenland’s northern coast is buttressed by floating ice shelves that prevent inland glaciers, which are part of the ice sheet, from flowing freely into the Arctic Ocean.
  — Delger Erdenesanaa, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2023
• The news buttressed the view of a growing number of economists that the U.S. could avoid a recession, though many continue to forecast a mild downturn late this year or in 2024.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 28 July 2023
• The committee also called on the Biden administration and state governments to do more to buttress those rights.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2022
• That, along with the larger displacement and the hybrid-assist system, seems aimed at buttressing low-rpm torque and throttle response when the engine is off boost.
  — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 31 May 2023
• For decades, Springsteen had kept his tickets at bargain rates, buttressing his reputation as a man of the people.
  — Ben Sisario, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2023
• Investors were surprised Thursday because they’ve been conditioned to believe the Fed will always come through with a put to buttress the market.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2022
• All of these verses have been lifted out of context and repurposed to buttress the anti-vaccine movement.
  — John Fea, The Conversation, 4 Oct. 2021
• Their efforts have been buttressed after obtaining a veto-proof majority in the House in April—thanks to the defection of a Democrat.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 3 July 2023
• The palate is indicative of a bourbon this old, unveiling deep notes of red berry, caramel, vanilla pudding, and banana bread, all buttressed by black pepper and a melange of baking spices.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 12 Nov. 2023
• Both moves helped buttress Gordon’s right-wing credentials.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2022
• That's helped buttress the health system against emerging diseases like monkeypox, but there are still important gaps that showed up in the early days of the pandemic.
  — Madison Muller, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2022
• The letter lays out evidence, culled from public meetings and public statements, to buttress the claim that the law was violated.
  — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 2 Dec. 2022
• The distillery says that this batch is a bit sweeter than past ones, and that is true with notes of tropical fruit, ripe peach, and vanilla ice cream buttressed by the core peaty iodine flavor that anchors all of Ardbeg’s whiskies.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 6 Oct. 2023
• Gorski persists in his quack-bashing passion, now buttressing his blog posts with a relentless stream of sharp-elbowed tweets.
  — Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
• Celebrations surrounding the consecration are due to take place nationwide, buttressed by wall-to-wall coverage in the run-up to the event.
  — Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 18 Jan. 2024
• More recently, Peltz’s efforts were buttressed by Elon Musk, another bête noire of Disney.
  — Stacy Perman, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2024
• What further additions and subtractions among the rest of the team need to happen to buttress their particular games? … and 2) what kind of market is there for Mitchell and Gobert, which is to ask, what could the Jazz get in return?
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Apr. 2022

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