Mainstays [noun]

Definition of Mainstays:

chief support

Synonyms of Mainstays:


Opposite/Antonyms of Mainstays:

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Sentence/Example of Mainstays:

In less than a week he was back to his old time form, and became as he had been before, one of the mainstays of the team.

It is thought that Caesar Cremoninus, a philosopher famous in his time, was one of its mainstays.

And then they called on Dr. Barton, a young physician, whom Everley declared to be one of the mainstays of the local of the town.

Inspired by benevolence and sustained by courage, they have been the mainstays of all social renovation and progress.

The common field pea, or speckled Jack, was one of the mainstays of the Confederacy.

The judge who tried the combatants of Paris or the provinces, placed in the dock the mainstays of the law.

Home-spun, heavy tanned duck, corduroy or moleskin, and flannel underclothing should be the mainstays of a miner's wardrobe.

May not thy mainstays be snapped; Mayest thou not run aground.

Peggy Simms stood before Rainey, clinging to the mainstays, a different girl to the one that he had known.

He bowed politely to those two mainstays of society, the brothers Leroux, and went downstairs.