Strengthens
[streŋθnz]
Examples
- Because it strengthens a suspicion I felt when you gave me the letter to read. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Tuning forks do not produce strong tones unless mounted on hollow wooden boxes (Fig. 175), whose size and shape are so adjusted that resonance occurs and strengthens the sound. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Time strengthens him in all possibility as much as it does you. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- When a human being talks or sings, the air within the mouth cavity is thrown into sympathetic vibration and strengthens the otherwise feeble tone of the speaker. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Custom also, or acquaintance facilitates the entrance, and strengthens the conception of any object. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- It strengthens the disease, said the Rector's wife, much too well-born not to be an amateur in medicine. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The transition from a present impression, always enlivens and strengthens any idea. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- To set up an external aim strengthens by reaction the false conception of culture which identifies it with something purely inner. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Editor: Ryan