mainstays

Example Sentences

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The two winners will sit in New York’s Celebrity Row, a section that typically features mainstays like Ben Stiller, Fat Joe and Timothee Chalamet.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026

Doku and Haaland were mainstays in the front three now.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2026

From Beyoncé to Taylor Swift — whose big-budget tour spectacles received theatrical releases — to Lady Gaga and Billie Eilish’s more modest streaming affairs, tour documentaries and concert films have become modern mainstays.

From Salon • Feb. 8, 2026

Hip-hop, and its predecessor, rap, had become cultural mainstays.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 1, 2026

And one of the mainstays of Franklin’s printing business was the publication of Indian treaties, viewed then as critical state documents.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann