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

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 • Mar. 13, 2026

And for most of that time, sheep were the mainstay of the business.

From BBC • Mar. 5, 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