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Meanings of as sturdy in inglês

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Usage of as sturdy in inglês
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I wish all my patients were as sturdy as you, sir!
Speaks the Nightbird
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Nancy was just as sturdy on her skates as the boy.
A Little Miss Nobody; Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall
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Her back was a beautiful butterscotch color, as sturdy as a tree trunk.
Ladder of years: a novel
4
At twelve he was as sturdy and capable as most boys at twenty.
Historic Boyhoods
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The handle felt about as sturdy as a blade of grass.
Depraved
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Within this educational greenhouse, Jane was not so much orchid as sturdy milkweed blossom.
Poe's children: the new horror : an anthology
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Bear also sells cycling accessories, such as sturdy locks, coffee cup holders and saddle caps.
The Irish Times
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It is as sturdy and upright (albeit less curvy) as a Martello Tower.
The Irish Times
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Didi picked at one of her short, square fingernails, her fingers as sturdy as tools.
Mine
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A man as sturdy as an oak, and who ought to have outlived us all.
The Count's Millions
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All the debris has been loosened by her struggling, so the pack isn't as sturdy here.
Rain Wild Chronicles 02 - Dragon Haven
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All of the windows were shuttered, and the front door was as sturdy as this one.
Rot & ruin
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He is as sturdy as a Turk.
East Lynne
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The man is a marvel-sixty-nineyears old, a life of hardship, and as sturdy as a lion.
The Mutiny of the Elsinore
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His short legs were hardly strong enough, as sturdy as they were, to support his huge body.
Around the World in Ten Days
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But in languages where the word for 'bridge' has a masculine gender, people refer to bridges as sturdy.
BBC
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