Sample Sentences for
stalwart
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    It was Ritchie, that chat-room stalwart, who had come to my aid in the end.  (source)
    stalwart = reliable
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    Now I was afraid this incident might turn my only stalwart supporter against me.  (source)
    stalwart = loyal
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    At the same time, the most stalwart workers in the urban centers were wearying under the burden of the continuous workweek;  (source)
    stalwart = most dependable and hardworking
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    I sold heavily altered or outright reconstructed pieces as original; if—out of the dim light of Hobart and Blackwell—the collector got the piece home and noticed something amiss ("always carry a pocket light with you," Hobie had counselled me, early in the game; "there's a reason so many antique shops are dark") then I —grieved at the mix-up, while stalwart in my conviction that the piece was genuine—gallantly offered to buy it back at ten percent more than the collector had paid, under the conditions and terms of an ordinary sale.  (source)
    stalwart = steadfast or firm
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    And a leading Federalist wrote with glee to the Washington party stalwarts, "He walks into State Street at the usual hour but seems totally unknown."†  (source)
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    In his tall stalwartness Adam Bede was a Saxon, and justified his name; but the jet-black hair, made the more noticeable by its contrast with the light paper cap, and the keen glance of the dark eyes that shone from under strongly marked, prominent and mobile eyebrows, indicated a mixture of Celtic blood.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    Lit from beneath by banks of floodlights, the church's two bell towers rose like stalwart sentinels above the building's long body.  (source)
    stalwart = strong and steadfast
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    But these Paul Farmers, they'll drop out, and when they do, we stalwarts will still be here figuring out the best way to spend two dollars and twenty-seven cents per capita for health care.'†  (source)
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    I try to catch his good eye — but he's not looking at me; he's looking towards the horizon, with his spine straight and his shoulders back, as if he's facing a firing squad. Stalwart, you'd say.  (source)
    Stalwart = brave and steady
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    The overthrow of Cannonism, although welcomed in Nebraska by all but a few party stalwarts, had nevertheless required tremendous courage and leadership on the part of a young Congress-man attacking his party's well-entrenched leaders and willing to sacrifice the comforts and alliances that party loyalty brings.†  (source)
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    A stalwart boy, Ser Kevan Lannister's son, nephew to Lord Tywin and cousin to the queen.†  (source)
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    Henry Knox and Benjamin Lincoln, two stalwarts of 1776 and now of formidable political importance, came to talk.†  (source)
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    "Not exactly stalwart, are you?" he said.†  (source)
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