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Example sentences for: mainstay

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Turn west at Parksville to cross the island on Highway 4. This takes you through some of the province’s finest forestland: the red cedar of canoes, totem poles and longhouses; stately Douglas fir, mainstay of white man’s bridges, boats, houses, and flagstaffs; and the good old Sitka spruce Christmas tree.
Nouns and verbs are the mainstay of the metaphors treated, but adjectives are in very short supply.
Supreme Court from Washington state that challenges the mechanism every state uses as a mainstay of legalservices funding.
During the 1990s they made numerous attempts to de-stabilize his regime, finally resorting to attacking the mainstay of the Egyptian economy — tourism — and several despicable attacks on foreign visitors resulted in over 60 deaths.
In particular, education continues to be a mainstay, and is often carried out through lectures and newsletters.