Example sentences for: firmness

How can you use “firmness” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Editor William Kristol bemoans the "Clintonization" of Trent Lott and other GOP leaders, who have replaced their old firmness with vague, pandering rhetoric.

  • My own experience of parenting is that adult firmness coupled with irony and occasional bouts of silliness makes for sturdy children.

  • The word carries the impression of firmness, even of deliberate effort in its production.

  • Someone else was said to have deplored a lack of moral firmness in García Márquez's portrait of Pablo Escobar, the Medellin drug lord.

  • A kiss becomes a pretext for checking out her dental enamel, a stroke of her hair for testing the firmness of the roots--a gawky parody of Ruth's own involuted, detached sexuality.


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