bolster

In a sentence

Six example sentences with bolster, each labelled with its topic.

• The mayor released the traffic figures early to bolster her case for keeping the extra bus funding.

  Politics

• Two enterprise contracts signed in March bolster the pitch, giving the founders revenue to show instead of projections.

  Startups

• A second study with three thousand participants bolsters the original finding, which had rested on a single small sample.

  Psychology

• The club signed a veteran center to bolster a defense that had allowed sixty points in the paint.

  Basketball

• The central bank cut rates to bolster demand after two quarters of falling factory orders.

  Economics

• Two new witnesses bolstered the defense's account, and the prosecution asked for a recess to regroup.

  Law

Found in these word lists

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