buttress

Example Sentences

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Basically, since getting sworn in to the role, Patel has used a Gulfstream jet owned by the agency to buttress his vacation time.

From Slate • Dec. 18, 2025

Atkins, to buttress his view, cited a passage from Warren Buffett’s final Thanksgiving letter to shareholders.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 2, 2025

Monday's collapses affected a buttress and part of the tower's base, then part of the stairwell and the roof, Rome's Directorate of Cultural Heritage said in a statement.

From Barron's • Nov. 3, 2025

“Dictators, tyrants and kings build monumental architecture to buttress their own egos, which is called authoritarian monumentalism,” Gilmore writes.

From Salon • Oct. 28, 2025

This force was transferred through the flying buttress to the buttress itself and then down to the foundation.

From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay