Sentence Examples

1. We rested until two, and had supper starting for the hills immediately afterwards, armed with three stout sacks, which, by good luck, were upon the premises.
2. Shirley pulls up in a no-parking bay outside the town hall, a stout building set on its own block and fronted by a small plaza.
3. The verges in the holiday town are planted up with rows of stout palm trees, many still modest in height, their fronds dancing in the wind.
4. But he found it necessary to keep up a stout heart, and to postpone the meal he craved till the following morning.
5. Pushing her way through the crowd, a short, stout woman emerged.
6. The fort itself, a chunky and stout building of dark grey stone, stands proud on a low promontory.
7. A large gimlet-hole had been pierced in its frame to the left, and a very stout nail was found fitted therein, nearly to the head.
8. Stout fingers caressed the side of his face that once held a scar, vanished with the last traces of the husk we had met.
9. Bring down my mackintosh and traveling-cloak, and some stout shoes, though we shall do little walking.
10. On the 26th they fell in with a squadron of Algerine galleys, and after a stout resistance were overpowered and carried into Algiers.