cement
Example Sentences
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Featuring Paul Newman’s Broadway debut, it won the Pulitzer Prize for drama and cemented Inge’s reputation.
She intended them “to cement her status as a sacrificial figure in the image of Socrates,” Ms. Stalnaker writes.
Remember how Cooper made the catch of the year in the back of the end zone to beat Penn State and cement Mendoza’s Heisman?
From Los Angeles Times
The realization was cemented six months later after Pearl Harbor by the Battle of Midway, when carrier-launched aircraft decimated the Japanese fleet in what is largely considered a decisive turning point in the Pacific war.
From Los Angeles Times
He seemed to have kept his City place in that spot after Ait-Nouri's return from injury and with the Algerian now at the Africa Cup of Nations - O'Reilly has longer to cement that role.
From BBC
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