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Example sentences for "bolster"

Lexicographically close words:
bolls; bolo; bolometer; bolos; bolsa; bolstered; bolstering; bolsters; bolt; bolted
  1. It is supposed this will bolster them up for the Session, but something still depends on Stanley's Bill.

  2. To bolster business and industry and to create new jobs, I propose a 1-year tax reduction of $16 billion.

  3. An example during this past year was the timely support provided Thailand to help bolster that country's defenses against the large numbers of Soviet-backed Vietnamese troops ranged along its eastern frontier.

  4. He may be inferior--he is--but he wants real love to bolster him up.

  5. You have the mater and Bertie and Anne Carfax to bolster you up.

  6. The pole or rod which connects the hind axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.

  7. Shoddy inventions designed to bolster up a factitious pride.

  8. The bolster was placed loosely in a bolster case of slightly larger diameter than the bolster, and the bottom of the spindle had a free lateral movement as well as the top, as shown in his patent No.

  9. The bolster is an upright sleeve bearing, in which the spindle revolves, and against which is sustained the pull of the band that drives the spindle.

  10. By making this bolster or sleeve bearing to yield laterally by means of an elastic packing which surrounds it, a much greater freedom and speed of revolution were obtained.

  11. And he swung from one enemy to another, showing about as much life as an old bolster would do.

  12. We set ourselves to bolster it up from compassion, from recklessness, from a sense of fun.

  13. It served to bolster up my belief that I had some influence in my mother's house, after all!

  14. I found old Crab Bolster and his skiff to lighter my cargo across the inlet, and when the boy came down from the store with the barrow, Crab and I loaded the provisions and spring water into his boat.

  15. Then she makes sure that the bolster does not come into contact with the headboard (in this way she gains the substitute satisfaction of keeping her mother and father apart).

  16. Similarly, she begins to associate the bolster at the head of her bed with her father and identifies her mother with the headboard.

  17. An editorial notice or subsidised paragraph will be inserted in the paper, extolling the merits and predicting the certain success of some concern which it is desired to bolster up or to foist upon the public.

  18. Internationally, the EU aims to bolster Europe's trade position and its political and economic power.

  19. Through this agency he hoped to bolster up his own power as against the rapidly growing body of his enemies in Spain.

  20. The dying attempt of Rome to bolster up her outworn administrative system is not a fact, however, to which much space need be given in a history of Spain.

  21. The Prince of Denmark would have been rather a fidgety husband, perhaps, but he would never have had recourse to a murderous bolster at the instigation of a low-born knave.

  22. Start with a conviction of the man's guilt, and you'll go hunting up evidence to bolster that conviction.

  23. But the appetite you bolster up isn't the equivalent of a good healthy hunger after a day out-of-doors.

  24. It's good of you to consider my feelings how they grow, and to try to bolster them up," Madeline smiled.

  25. He is a prey to doubts and fears which never troubled him in those days when he could see his political henchmen every day and bolster up their confidence in his ability to fight off the prosecution.

  26. We find these weighty considerations disregarded on the advice of the corporation's lawyers, to bolster up an invalid claim to the possession of franchises obtained by trick and device in an hour of public confusion.

  27. Even Denys changed colour at threats so fervent and precise; but Gerard only gnashed his teeth with rage at the noise, and seized his hard bolster with kindling eye.

  28. Had it been a thunderbolt from Heaven, he had met but his due; yet he took but a sorry bolster from this weak arm.

  29. The bolster wrapped round his nose and the two ends kissed behind his head, and his forehead resounded, and had he been Goliath, or Julius Caesar, instead of an old quacksalver, down he had gone.

  30. Jack's proposal of a sack race in bolster cases was, for a moment, entertained as a good idea; then it was suddenly remembered that the bolsters had no cases, and so that project fell through.

  31. He incited the occupants of the Long Dormitory to celebrate the end of work by a grand bolster fight, during the progress of which conflict a pillow was thrown through the ventilator above the door.

  32. To curb the budget deficit and bolster confidence in the economy, the new Social Democratic government is proposing cuts in welfare benefits, subsidies, defense, and foreign aid.

  33. But you're not a prince, Turkey," I returned, in the low endeavour to bolster up the wrong with my silly logic.

  34. Knowing by the exclamation she made that I had attracted her attention, I tugged at the string; this lifted the bolster a little, and of course out came my rat.

  35. Their boys were really novices at the business, and it was to be expected, they reasoned, trying to bolster up their waning courage, that at first things would hit the Chester line hard.

  36. Thank you for trying to bolster up my nerve, Jack It's mighty nice of you in the bargain.

  37. Try as he would to bolster his grit, Captain Jack Benson found himself in a fearful plight.

  38. Jack, trying hard to bolster up a courage that, none the less, would ooze and drop.

  39. Are we to bolster up the old codes, in which we have largely ceased to believe, merely in order to have a code?

  40. Mr. Bolster presided at a meeting at which the friends and parishioners of the Rev.

  41. And Goldenlocks had pulled the bolster of the Middle Bear out of its place.

  42. A swing-bolster truck had been developed 20 years earlier for use on railroad cars,[12] and while Smith recognized this in his patent, he based his claim on the specific application of the idea to locomotive trucks.

  43. Smith's swing-bolster truck, with the heart pendant link, a later refinement, became the dominating form of centering devices and was used well into this century.

  44. Then they to bete and tufle the sayde bedde, and to laye oon then the bolster without touchyng of the bedd where as it aught to lye.

  45. The sayd yoman to laye theym upon the bolster and the heed sheete with whych the sayde yoman shall cover the sayde pyllowes.

  46. And then the sayd ii yomen to lay upon the sayde bedde toward the bolster as yt was bifore.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bolster" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.