STRENGTH in a Sentence

Learn STRENGTH from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
292 example sentences for STRENGTH, such as:
1. Health and strength is above all gold.
2. He said she had undermined her strength.
3. But God would give me strength to bear it.
4. People do not lack strength, they lack will.
5. She didn't even have the strength to stand up.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of STRENGTH
strength
 n.  capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects
 n.  capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Mother had always been just as she was, a pillar of strength, a fount of wisdom, the one person who knew the answers to everything.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  He put out his hand toward her and, as he did, she slapped him across the face with all the strength she had.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  Atlanta considered him the root of all strength and all wisdom and it was not strange that he had absorbed something of their belief.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  Something in his look challenged her spirit and brought her strength back in a surge of dislike.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  But God would give me strength to bear it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
6  Moreover, many of them were dying, dying swiftly, silently, having little strength left to combat the blood poisoning, gangrene, typhoid and pneumonia which had set in before they could reach Atlanta and a doctor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
7  His was such an easy, graceful strength, lazy as a panther stretching in the sun, alert as a panther to spring and strike.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
8  Mrs. Meade managed to smile and wave until he had passed and then she leaned her head on the back of Scarlett's shoulder for a moment as though her strength had suddenly left her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
9  When she had finished it, a measure of strength came back to her and with the strength came again the pricking of fear.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
10  For the first time, she realized that this was Ashley's baby and suddenly wished with all the strength left in her that he were her baby, hers and Ashley's.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
11  Suddenly she hated him, hated him with a strength that momentarily overpowered her fear, made it seem petty and small.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
12  But she had promised and now they belonged to her, even as Wade and Prissy belonged to her, and she must struggle and fight for them as long as she had strength or breath.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
13  Climbing back into the wagon required all the strength Scarlett could muster, but at last it was done and she picked up the lines.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
14  He said she had undermined her strength.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
15  It seemed to penetrate even her ice-locked heart and strength came coursing back into her body.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
Example Sentence: (82 in 6 pages)
1  Health and strength is above all gold.
2  Add water to dilute the solution to the required strength.
3  It takes strength of character to admit you are wrong.
4  Her unwillingness to answer questions undermined the strength of her position.
5  The strength of reaction to the article is proof positive that this is a very important issue.
6  Live as though you intend to live forever, and work as though your strength were limit less.
7  I don't have the strength to stay away from you anymore.
8  The new arrangement enabled the police to gain an excellent idea of the total troop strength.
9  She didn't even have the strength to stand up.
10  The material has exceptionally high strength for its weight.
11  A powerful idea commissions some of its strength to him who challenges it.
12  People do not lack strength, they lack will.
13  She had the strength and stamina to take the lead and win the gold medal.
14  The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
15  The little boy hasn't the strength to lift that heavy box.