stalwart
adjective
strongly and stoutly built; sturdy and robust.
stalwartly
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a word derived from
stalwart.
Example Sentences
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Since then, volunteers—also known as “gravers”—have stalwartly photographed and recorded tombstones, mausoleums, crosses, statues, and all other manner of graves for posterity.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024
His wife, Catherine, has stalwartly looked the other way as they’ve raised three daughters to go to Newnham College, Cambridge, one of the rare gateways for women who aspired to independence.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2022
Coming to prominence initially as part of the boy band One Direction, perhaps it's understandable that Styles' first fans were teenage girls, a group he has stalwartly defended.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2022
But then Ms. Mazzie begins her second solo, “Hello, Young Lovers,” with a husky quietness, and you hear the fragile heart beating beneath the stalwartly corseted form.
From New York Times ● May 22, 2016
As for Jess, she stalwartly declared that if it hadn’t been for Peggy there would have been no Golden Butterfly, no five thousand dollar prize, and, as she said, “no nothing.”
From The Girl Aviators and the Phantom Airship by Margaret Burnham
