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.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

Troubled singer-songwriters are a mainstay in the mythology of American roots music.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Manchester City winger Lauren Hemp has been a mainstay in the starting XI and told the Women's Football Weekly podcast "it's really important to have a good connection" with the left-back.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026

But the goal this spring is for him to cement himself as a mainstay in the club’s pitching rotation.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026

Millions of acres of forests were sprayed instead of thou sands as before, in an effort to save the balsams, which are the mainstay of the pulp and paper industry.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson