Strength in a sentence 🔊

(obsolete) To give strength to; to strengthen. [12th-17th c.] | The quality or degree of being strong. | The intensity of a force or power; potency.

Short Example Sentences for Strength

9. A "good name" is a tower of strength and many votes. 🔊
10. The naval strength of the Regencies amounts to nothing. 🔊
11. I hadn't the strength to go on. 🔊
12. Stilton held me from him by the superior strength of his intellect. 🔊
13. The strength of this we purpose to try in a subsequent chapter. 🔊
14. He was a bully by nature, and used his great strength by imposing on others. 🔊
15. The poor girl partly opened a languid eye, but was without strength or motion. 🔊
16. Here, happily for myself, I had the strength to draw the line. 🔊

1. His strength and weakness were the kind which had profoundly influenced her life. 🔊
2. Worming our fingers under the edge of the boulder, we lifted with all the strength that was in us. 🔊
3. He thrust from him the pity that had taken the strength from his arm, and raised the pistol again. 🔊
4. After that, she had not the strength to drag herself anywhere, not even to see the quack. 🔊
5. I agreed; for I felt the strength of a giant in me, and I longed to pummel him soundly. 🔊
6. This switch spring itself serves by its own strength to raise the hook lever when released from the weight of the receiver. 🔊
7. It is important to note that the strength of action depends upon the strength of the current up to a certain point only. 🔊
8. The air strength of any nation in case of war resides in its efficient flying men and in its own productive capacity. 🔊

9. The front portion is covered with sheet metal giving additional strength and reducing the head resistance. 🔊
10. The spirit of the age and the strength of the colonies forbid its exercise; they cannot be held by the old policy. 🔊
11. The magnetizing force of a given helix depends on the product of the current strength and the number of turns of wire in the helix. 🔊
12. They were obliged to stop there for the night, Sage's strength being exhausted. 🔊
13. His adversary pursued his advantage; pressed on him, and as his strength relaxed, dashed him headlong from the precipice. 🔊
14. To put forth all Britain's strength and not run away from the obligations of honor and interest. 🔊
15. The smaller the wire, the weaker it is, and with poles a given distance apart, the strength of the wire must be above a certain minimum. 🔊
16. For the last few months, however, as I have said, it had been growing aright, and gaining strength and vigour. 🔊

17. He had not the strength to write the masterpiece which the perverse cruelty of nature had permitted him only to see, and he was hopelessly unfit for journalism. 🔊
18. The Almighty will give me strength to endure my lot, however severe and terrible, with resignation to His will. 🔊
19. On the 4th of March he was attacked by fever; on the 5th, his strength failed greatly; and on the 6th he was scarcely kept alive by cordials. 🔊

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