mainstay
Example Sentences
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They weren’t always the flashiest businesses, but they built the Baltimore company into a grocery store mainstay.
"I see him being a big success for England and being a mainstay for years."
From BBC
Troubled singer-songwriters are a mainstay in the mythology of American roots music.
The Astros had been a mainstay atop the AL West for eight years — claiming seven division titles during that time — but now the division appears to be under new management.
From Los Angeles Times
Scams have become a "mainstay" of modern crime and are "increasingly difficult to investigate because of their transnational nature", said Jeffery Chin, deputy director at the police Scam Public Education Office.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
