Sample Sentences for
bolster
(editor-reviewed)

bolster as in:  to bolster

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    The falling unemployment rate is bolstering consumer confidence.
    bolstering = strengthening
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    You're ashamed of your son, so you want me to bolster your street cred.  (source)
    bolster = support and strengthen
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    What he needed was help — some encouragement, some guidance, anything to bolster his resolve.  (source)
    bolster = support or strengthen
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    So the Count could well appreciate why Andrey had decided to bolster his crew.  (source)
    bolster = support and strengthen
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    I wanted you to have a chance to get yourself on solid ground, get your heart bolstered up first.  (source)
    bolstered = supported or strengthened
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    Two bolsters can be piled on top of each other.†  (source)
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    We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own.  (source)
    bolstering = supporting or propping up
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    The bailiff represented the lowest-ranking male and depended on his belt hung with glistening pistol, clanging wad of keys, and clunky radio to bolster his position.  (source)
    bolster = support and strengthen
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    In dozens of letters that crisscrossed America, they shared their emotions and bolstered each other's hopes about "our boys."  (source)
    bolstered = supported and strengthened
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    Guests unable to sleep in their beds, and good bolsters ruined and all!†  (source)
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    Because—you were always so good to Andy—bolstering him, improving his confidence.  (source)
    bolstering = supporting
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    Mr. Meany, in an effort to bolster the disappointing business at the quarry, was expanding his involvement in monument sales.  (source)
    bolster = support and strengthen
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    …now that phenomenal existence is no more bolstered up by impressions from within or from without, we feel the need to lean on something that abides, something that will never play us false–a reality, an absolute and everlasting truth.  (source)
    bolstered = supported and strengthened
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