mainstays in a sentence
Examples
- Sugar was the mainstay of Cuba's economy for centuries.
- Meat and flour also were the mainstay of the British Army.
- No wonder that it is a mainstay on most dinner tables.
- Mainstay also offers a support group for Spanish-speaking women.
- Those were mainstay jobs where there was long tenure with employers.
- Lewis won the job and has become a mainstay on defense.
- One mainstay for this beach town has been its fishing pier.
- Wages earned in Israel are a mainstay of the Palestinian economy.
- The sanctions prevent Iraq from exporting oil, its economic mainstay.
- ECONOMY _ Agriculture mainstay, but tourism major foreign exchange earner.