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Example sentences for "strengthened"

Lexicographically close words:
strenger; strenght; strength; strengthe; strengthen; strengthener; strengtheneth; strengthening; strengthens; strengthless
  1. This line was strengthened by two other lines which took in Ramscappelle, Pervyse, Lampernisse and St. Jacques-Cappelle.

  2. All the tribes of the Towara complain of the sterility of their wives;[They wish for children because their tribe is strengthened by it.

  3. But, soon afterwards, strengthened by the decision of an African Synod, he returned to his original position, and the parties now became hopelessly alienated.

  4. Moore was superseded as governor by Sir Nathaniel Johnson, who immediately strengthened the fortifications at and near Charleston.

  5. After receiving reinforcements, he planned the conquest of Jamaica, but the arrival of twelve ships from England so strengthened the British fleet that the project was not carried out.

  6. The American cause was strengthened by the powerful support of Pitt and by the protests of English merchants and manufacturers who were losing trade through colonial boycotts.

  7. In 1701 the French occupied Detroit to cut off the English from one of the routes to the fur country, and strengthened their hold on the Illinois country.

  8. Fortifications were strengthened and vessels patrolled the coast.

  9. The colony was soon strengthened by German and Scotch immigration.

  10. The defences were strengthened by works at Paulus Hook on the Jersey shore, and others on Governor's Island and at Red Hook on Long Island.

  11. After the Newport failure Washington drew a cordon about New York and strengthened the line of the Hudson.

  12. The hull was of copper strengthened by iron ribs.

  13. The experience gathered by Holland in building and navigating these two boats strengthened his determination to build a thoroughly successful submarine and increased his faith in his ability to do so.

  14. And every moment he had spent with her had strengthened the tie.

  15. As the girls grew older they studied together, and the friendship, born of propinquity, was strengthened by mutual tastes and sympathy.

  16. Then, with another and more sweeping wave of the arm, he stubbornly strengthened himself in his hopes.

  17. Was it, long after the sorrows of Avignon, Julius II, who wore the cuirass and once more strengthened the political power of the papacy?

  18. This again, like Lourdes, was an experiment, but a graver one, a decisive one, whence he would emerge either strengthened or overcome for evermore.

  19. No one will rise from the perusal of this naturally written story without feeling himself strengthened in all good and honorable resolutions.

  20. But enough remained, when strengthened by the body-guard of the Landgrave, to make up a corps of nearly five hundred men.

  21. Suffering and sorrow, life's holiest sacraments, have hallowed and strengthened the ties of nature.

  22. Very unfortunate was it for him, that I thus fed and strengthened the serpent that should have been strangled in the cradle of our love; and his mother unconsciously did the same.

  23. Better than all, Mr. Lewes, in spite of a sad check of a few days, is strengthened beyond our most hopeful expectations by this brief trial of fresh conditions.

  24. One likes to feel old ties strengthened by fresh sympathies.

  25. But if the Monarchy was strengthened by its association with the tradition of constitutional freedom it was henceforth inseparably bound to the freedom which strengthened it.

  26. The violence of the Earl's party only strengthened the resolution of the king.

  27. Lambert however suffered himself to be lured into inaction by negotiations, while Monk gathered a Convention at Edinburgh, and strengthened himself with money and recruits.

  28. He knew the value of ordinary good sense, the second-sight of a pure heart, or of a pious soul strengthened by prayer.

  29. Ceaselessly they begged to be strengthened in the conviction of immortality and of meeting again brotherlike in God.

  30. To this end, the Catholics must be made to remain in the country, and the greatest possible number be strengthened in their faith.

  31. He thought of all the charity he had poured out upon his people and the Church, upon all he had loved in God--upon all he had done, upon all the consequence of his labour, inspired and strengthened by the divine love.

  32. Both forts had a short time before been strengthened by the besieged, and the former was scarcely finished when the Margrave of Rysburg attacked it.

  33. Just before this, Mr. Milne rejoiced his heart and strengthened his hands by coming out from England and joining the mission; and having commenced under very different circumstances, he soon acquired the language, and greatly assisted Dr.

  34. The impressions on me are strengthened by such an evidence that my faithful endeavors to discharge my arduous duties have been favorably estimated, and by a consideration of the momentous period at which the trust has been renewed.

  35. He is, as the careful student of the novels will perceive, a greatly strengthened and improved rifacimento of Kingcote, while Amy Reardon is a better observed Isabel, regarded from a slightly different point of view.

  36. Earliest daylight made this suggestion look very insubstantial; on the other hand, it strengthened his memory of Mr. Charman's virtual indebtedness to him.

  37. And as he walked resolve strengthened itself in his heart.

  38. The fashion had "grown with his growth and strengthened with his strength," so that, when he came to be a man, he could scarcely utter a sentence without interlarding it with a proposition to gamble.

  39. Believe me, I found myself in no small degree strengthened by these reflections.

  40. The noble and learned virgin not only refused the alliance, but, strengthened by the approbation of her Christian father and her other uncle, Pope Caius, who were present, spoke so eloquently that Claudius was converted to Christianity.

  41. Her resolution was strengthened by the very circumstances which would have discouraged many others.

  42. Nothing but prayer had strengthened my resolution.

  43. We shall see them living more and more in one another, associating with one another, and being strengthened by that association.

  44. Charlemagne surrounded the city with a wall, pierced by ten gates, which Frederick Barbarossa rebuilt and strengthened in 1187.

  45. Ahab decreed persecution against them, which strengthened instead of breaking the intensity of their faith, their adhesion and devotion to the God of the ancestors.

  46. But by this course he would have roused against himself those whom he robbed, and strengthened the attachment to Saul.

  47. Strengthened by these means, Ninus turned his course to Media.

  48. Thus from the land of the Philistines, with his band, which here became strengthened by the discontented in Israel[265] who fled to him over the border, David carried on a petty war against Saul and his country.

  49. A brave warrior even in early years, David had been afterwards tested and strengthened by adventures and dangers of every kind; he had understood how to meet or escape even the most difficult situations.

  50. Turning then against his neighbour chiefs, he strengthened his frontier to the west by the conquest of Jagatgar, reckoned a very strong place, which had belonged to the Raja of Nurpur.

  51. Both its bark and leaves have a fine aromatic smell and taste, and this quality in the leaves is strengthened by drying.

  52. Damodar had strengthened his influence by the marriage of his sister into the distinguished family of the Viswanaths, and had procured the command of most of the fortresses, which he intrusted to the care of his own dependants.

  53. If they do not come to themselves, the most fearful crime will be committed, as in Orel, and then the hypnotic suggestion under which they act will be strengthened in all other men.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "strengthened" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aggrandized; amplified; backed; bloated; callous; crusty; crystallized; elevated; enhanced; enlarged; expanded; extended; fossilized; granulated; hardened; heightened; increased; incrusted; indurated; inflated; intensified; magnified; multiplied; ossified; petrified; raised; reinforced; solidified; spread; steeled; stiffened; strengthened; swollen; toughened; vitrified; widened