Strength

//stɹɛŋ(k)θ//

"Strength" in a Sentence (27 examples)

I don't have the strength to keep trying.

The manager balanced the strength of his team against that of their opponent and sighed.

We lifted the table with our combined strength.

My muscular strength has weakened from lack of exercise.

The economic strength of a country lies not alone in its ability to produce, but also in its capacity to consume.

The pommel horse requires more balance than strength.

We took pride in our strength.

Eat more, or you won't gain strength.

Tom has grown in strength.

The warrior is conscious of both his strength and his weakness.

Show 17 more sentences

It requires great strength to lift heavy objects.

Our castle’s strength will laugh a siege to scorn.

He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.

He had the strength of ten men.

Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

[…] certainly there is not in the world a greater strength against temptations, then is deposited in an obedient understanding […].

to play to one's strengths

We all have our own strengths and weaknesses.

The compulsion to expose, renegotiate, or reinvent the strengths and weaknesses of dance tradition offers little in its final outcome to attract the average dance-goer.

Career diplomat Conrad Tribble said on Twitter that multiculturalism “is one of our greatest strengths as a country, and I go to that well often as an American diplomat. It’s hard to overstate the global soft power impact of America’s cultural diversity.”

Thou princely leader of our English strength, Never so needful on the earth of France,

That done, dissever your united strengths, And part your mingled colours once again;

All like himself rebellious, by whose aid This inaccessible high strength, the seat Of Deitie supream, us dispossest, He trusted to have seis’d […]

ſtrengthed with all myght / thꝛowe hys gloꝛious power / vnto all pacience / and longe ſufferynge with ioyfulnes

Then ſhalt thow perceave what it meaneth that the power of this wretched monſtre / muſt be ſtrengthed / by anothers power and not by his awne.

In witnes wherof we haue cauſed this pꝛeſent wꝛiting to be ſtrengthed with the ſeal of our facultie[…]

Next best steps

Mini challenge

Unscramble this word: strength