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Example sentences for "bolstered"

Lexicographically close words:
bolo; bolometer; bolos; bolsa; bolster; bolstering; bolsters; bolt; bolted; bolters
  1. In such logical manner he gradually bolstered up again his habitual poise and dignity.

  2. Bolstered by a widespread national desire to reintegrate into Western Europe, Estonia has adhered to disciplined fiscal and financial policies and has led the FSU countries in pursuing economic reform.

  3. Long-run prospects for the tourist sector have been greatly bolstered by the expansion of air travel in the Pacific and the rapidly rising prosperity of leading East Asian countries.

  4. So it is admitted that denominationalism is bolstered up with temporary shafting.

  5. This is asserted to have bolstered American courage and to give warrant for the argument that America finally yielded to Great Britain from no fear of consequences, but merely on a clearer recognition of the justice of the case.

  6. I shall surely die," gasped Wilhelmina, sitting bolstered on her couch and looking greatly worse than the day before.

  7. Phillida entered, and found Mina bolstered in her chair, flushed with fever and gasping for breath.

  8. Moore's version is not quite so pretty, and is bolstered out with paraphrase and amplification to a rather intolerable extent.

  9. The king, pale, emaciate, and with death staring him in the face, was bolstered in his bed.

  10. As he sat bolstered in his chair, he wrung his hands in agony, often exclaiming, "My poor family!

  11. However, IMF-approved government policies, bolstered by generous foreign assistance and renewed access to global markets since 2001, have generated solid macroeconomic recovery the last three years.

  12. Bright-eyed, hollow-cheeked, with a racking cough that reddened the gauze handkerchief the doctor had given him, he sat bolstered up in his cot and looked out through the open door with glad and hopeful gaze.

  13. In a log-built room that faced this bit of glorious red glow lay Peter, bolstered up in his bed so that he could see it until it faded from the sky.

  14. The macroeconomic adjustments, bolstered by strong oil prices, resulted in strong growth in 1997.

  15. The economy continues to be bolstered by remittances of some 20% of the labor force which works abroad, mostly in Greece and Italy.

  16. Long-run prospects for the tourist sector have been greatly bolstered by the expansion of air travel in the Pacific and the rising prosperity of leading East Asian countries.

  17. That legislation was later complemented by the Disability Insurance Amendments of 1980 which further bolstered the disability insurance program, and reduced certain inequities among beneficiaries.

  18. During the past six years our free world security arrangements have been bolstered and the bonds of freedom have been more closely knit.

  19. Shahbash gave a rumble of despair, and bolstered up his uneasy conscience by telling himself such views were unnatural, accursed.

  20. Les King bolstered his courage by telling himself that, what the hell, he'd planned all along to go right ahead and dig out the complete android through whatever means possible.

  21. Your idea is bolstered by the fact that the androids were found all over the country.

  22. However, IMF-approved government policies, bolstered by generous foreign assistance and renewed access to global markets since late 2001, have generated solid macroeconomic recovery the last two years.

  23. Within the room, sweating from the ordeal through which he had passed, Kent sat bolstered against his pillows, facing Inspector Kedsty with blazing eyes.

  24. Through his window, as he sat bolstered up in his cot, Kent could see the slow-moving shimmer of the great Athabasca River as it moved on its way toward the Arctic Ocean.

  25. Bolstered up against his pillows, he did not look the part of the fiend he was confessing himself to be to the people about him.

  26. But he is unable to prosecute the subject far without discovering that mental weakness is often bolstered up by fraud.

  27. Trim ranks of gabions (wicker baskets filled with sand) bolstered the sloping debris of the walls on the interior.

  28. The debris, accumulating above the sand- and cotton-filled rooms, itself bolstered the crumbling walls.

  29. Part of the time he lay bolstered up in bed, but even this taxed his strength too heavily.

  30. The mother was bolstered up in bed, and the casket was lowered beside her, where she too could view the remains.

  31. Every time their troops made a stand they were promptly defeated and driven back, but their faltering courage was bolstered up by glorious tidings of wonderful, but wholly imaginary, victories won elsewhere.

  32. He grimaced when Joanne and Donald bolstered him up with blankets at his back.

  33. Quade was bolstered up on a stool, his back against the thin partition, when John Aldous sauntered in.

  34. As we entered the kitchen there stood the mother by her fat, laughing baby, bolstered up in his rude cradle of rough boards.

  35. One poor skeleton of a man sat bolstered on his cot, eating his dinner, and had on his plate a spoonful of cooked onion.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bolstered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    borne; held; sustained