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
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 are rock-ribbed, conservative ranchers who wear cowboy hats and boots.
From Salon • Apr. 15, 2020
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
