Words similar to mainstay

Example sentences for: mainstay

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

The first exports were made in the 1880s and the banana has continued to be a mainstay of the islands’ economy.
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.
Farming has been another mainstay of the Lake District economy for centuries.
As long as Congress is unwilling to offset revenue losses with real spending cuts (not the vague promises of future rectitude that have been the mainstay of every "historic balanced budget" package since 1981), a cut in taxes means a bigger federal budget deficit.
In general--and this observation is a mainstay of college statistics courses--when you think you've seen something unusual, you're more likely to be mistaken than when you think you've seen something ordinary.