Architectural structure, usually of masonry, built to strengthen or support walls or resist the lateral thrust of vaults.
A support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building.
1 Meanwhile, the State continues to buttress the better-off with free tuition fees.
2 Tipperary buttress their lead and the reporters have found their turning point.
3 Haldane even cites the highest of all authorities to buttress this idea:
4 The following day we studied our line on the tower's southeast buttress .
5 We rounded the buttress only to find that the chase had vanished.
6 Close to the ground on the south-west corner buttress are two string-courses.
7 Italian lenders are increasingly betting on insurance to buttress weakening banking revenues.
8 I got astride of the buttress , and painfully forced my way up.
9 Hiding themselves behind a buttress , they awaited his coming in breathless silence.
10 Three women alone would have to buttress their authority with such trappings.
11 Ahead, a rounded buttress curved around the corner of the training yard.
12 A smear of fresh blood coated the trunk of a buttress tree.
13 Both sides of the debate say scientific studies buttress their points.
14 He used a facile mixture of fact and opinion to buttress his conclusions.
15 They both drive economic growth and also buttress the political system.
16 Ethics legislation was supposed to buttress the public's confidence in politics.
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