robust

In a sentence

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

• At seventy he remains robust enough to carry both grandchildren up two flights without pausing on the landing.

  Fitness

• The pipeline is robust enough to survive a whole region going dark, which the team proved by unplugging one.

  Technology

• Mangrove roots make the shoreline robust against storm surge in a way concrete walls have never quite matched.

  Environment

• Growth stayed robust through the winter, with factories hiring and exports rising for a sixth straight quarter.

  Economics

• The surgeon preferred a robust patient for the long operation, since recovery drew on reserves the frail did not have.

  Medicine

• A robust forward who plays all eighty-two games is worth more than a star who misses thirty of them.

  Basketball

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