Strong

//stɹæŋ//

"Strong" in a Sentence (39 examples)

The bridge couldn't sustain the force of the strong current and collapsed.

Flying against a strong wind is very difficult.

The strong wind died away at night.

Strong winds stripped the tree of its leaves.

The strong wind indicates that a storm is coming.

Passing through the strong wind, the planes rock like this, but don't worry.

The strong wind cut the electric wires in several places.

Fanned by a strong wind, the fire spread in an instant.

A strong wind began to set in.

Tall buildings may sway in a strong wind.

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a big strong man; Jake was tall and strong

The man was nearly drowned after a strong undercurrent swept him out to sea.

For he was swift as swallow in her flight, And strong as Lyon in his lordly might.

But what sight is that? It seems a town right in the river, each building standing upon its own foundation, with the deep, strong current of the river sweeping all around it? They are flouring mills operated by the natural current of the stream.

a strong foundation; good strong shoes

Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker.

A wise man is strong, yea a man of knowledge encreaseth strength.

Perhaps we grows very strong, stronger than Wraiths. Lord Smeagol? Gollum the Great? The Gollum! Eat fish every day, three times a day, fresh from the sea.

Outgassing of oxygen is strongest when primary production rates are greatest; ingassing is at a maximum during net respiration.

“Homeownership,” says John H. Mollenkopf, executive director of the Center for Urban Research at the City University of New York Graduate Center, “is the strongest predictor of being likely to turn out in local politics and being a bit more conservative and antitax in your general outlook.”

The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.

Ideas are eternal; they hang in the stars, and a man must be brave and strong enough to reach up to the stars and fetch down the fire from heaven and to carry the torch among men.

It noted China was especially strong in the fast-growing area of “deep learning.”

He is strong in the face of adversity.

a strong light; a strong taste

a strong smell

a strong cup of coffee; a strong medicine

a strong drink

She gets up, and pours herself a strong one. - Eagles, Lying Eyes

a strong verb

a strong acid; a strong base

a strong position

a strong economy

You're working with troubled youth in your off time? That’s strong!

The enemy's army force was five thousand strong.

Our armie will be forty thouſand ſtrong, When Tamburlain and braue Theridamas Haue met vs by the riuer Araris: And all conioin’d to meete the witleſſe King, That now is marching neere to Parthia.

Physicians may diagnosis influenza by a throat culture or blood test, which may be important if you have a particularly strong flu, if your doctor suspects pneumonia or a bacterial infection.

[…] but grounding him ſelfe vpon ſtrong reaſons, to wit, that he had not offended the Iewes, neither yet the Law, but that he was innocēt, and therefore that no iudge oght to geue hym in the hādes of his ennemies […]

As a salesperson I always come on strong.

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