rock-ribbed

Example Sentences

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Considering what awaits them in dealership service bays, I understand why consumers would want to future-proof their sanity with the rock-ribbed V8.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

In 1997, the comedy “In & Out” did its shiny, star-studded best to mainstream the story of a closeted gay man in a rock-ribbed American community embracing his truth.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2025

Not just any river of ice, but a tidewater glacier that descended all the way from tall, snowy mountains down to the sea where it calved blue minarets into a rock-ribbed fjord.

From Scientific American • Nov. 11, 2021

He was, to be sure, a rock-ribbed Republican.

From Washington Post • May 26, 2021

They convinced themselves that Adams was the enemy, and then all the evidence fell in place around that rock-ribbed, if highly questionable, conviction.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis