Sample sentences for BUTTRESS - verbalworkout.com

2 meanings

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1 —as in:
buttress the defenses

Definition

make stronger or defensible

Other Uses (with this meaning)

There is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit - and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place.
Virginia Kelley
I think I was glad to know it; I think I was glad to have my better impulses thus buttressed and guarded by the terrors of the scaffold.
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

buttressed = strengthened

The old adobe hall was buttressed along its outer walls with...
Cormac McCarthy -- All the Pretty Horses

buttressed = made stronger or supported

buttress your thesis
Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.
Bishop Desmond Tutu
I cradled him, his skull buttressed against mine and now wet with my tears.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
Westward, they widened into the sun, soaring up from buttressing shoulders.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
But the warmth, the glow, evidently does not regard or need buttressing either; neither is it quenched by the actuality of an orange and eggs and toast.
William Faulkner -- Light in August
He hesitated, then he buttressed his courage with the thought that one did not doubt the good faith and the competence of railroad executives.
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged

2 —as in:
a flying buttress

Definition

an architectural feature that supports the wall of a building

The buttress wall supports the main wall while preserving an open feel in the house.

buttress = an architectural feature that supports the wall of a building

Other Uses (with this meaning)

The stars are the great Gothic churches: spires, naves, delicate flying buttresses, massive conventional buttresses, stained glass and grandeur, grandeur, grandeur.
John Corry
I stepped up onto the ridge so he could flatten himself against the buttress.
Tara Westover -- Educated

buttress = an architectural feature that supports the wall of a building

His tracks led toward the east buttress of Denali, straight through a labyrinth of giant crevasses, evidence that he had made no apparent effort to circumvent obvious hazards.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

buttress = supporting structure

They behaved like people who do not want to be seen: lurking in shadow behind buttresses or in doorways,
C.S. Lewis -- The Silver Chair

buttresses = an architectural feature that supports the wall of a building

he could see the arched buttresses of the cathedral dome
Cormac McCarthy -- All the Pretty Horses

buttresses = architectural features supporting the walls

There was a soldier standing with his girl in the shadow of one of the stone buttresses ahead of us
Ernest Hemingway -- A Farewell to Arms

buttresses = an architectural feature that supports the wall of a building

buttress = supporting structure

I ran down the ridge to the flat walkway near the buttress.
Tara Westover -- Educated

buttress = an architectural feature that supports the wall of a building

Out of the grove they pulled to the steep divide, which was no more than a buttress of Sonoma Mountain.
London, Jack -- The Valley of the Moon

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