How to Use solidity in a Sentence

solidity

noun
  • The solidity of his convictions impressed us.
  • In my hands, the Isbell Tele had a solidity and weight to it.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 11 Sep. 2021
  • Along with a wide grille and big LED headlights, the truck projects a sense of solidity.
    Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 11 Aug. 2021
  • By the spring of 2016, Missi Brandt had emerged from a rough few years with a new sense of solidity.
    Rachel Monroe, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Other than the chicken chunks and the peas, there was no solidity to it.
    Adam Dolge, Southern Living, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The solidity of these grounding facts is key to the book’s success.
    Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The Chicago Electric is big and heavy, which gives it a feel of solidity.
    Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2019
  • This week, though, is for a freedom that feels like solidity, the kind that lives in your earthly body.
    Claire Comstock-Gay, The Cut, 23 Apr. 2018
  • The Dodgers need to buy some time and solidity in their rotation.
    Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2022
  • There are so many great bass players, but Ray Brown had that sound and that solidity and that power.
    Chris Kornelis, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The Colts have to find more solidity along the offensive line overall.
    Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Despite its heft and solidity—required to be able to tow 8,000 pounds—the new LX has plenty of hustle.
    Matthew Askari, Robb Report, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Open yourself to a solidity that comes from a far deeper place and that doesn’t need to be defended one bit.
    Bess Matassa, Teen Vogue, 6 Nov. 2012
  • The first impression is one of grim-forged solidity, like shaking hands with an anvil.
    Dan Neil, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2017
  • The 24th’s Full Moon invites you to spring forward into future plans from this sense of solidity in your core.
    Bess Matassa, Teen Vogue, 1 Sep. 2018
  • For many years, Alaska’s climate was cold enough preserve the solidity of the Earth beneath the ground surface.
    Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2021
  • The cellist has a solidity in the upper register that is rare.
    Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 17 Oct. 2017
  • The switch to a back three perhaps offers greater solidity, but with the future of a number of players still in doubt, this still feels like a side lacking edge.
    Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 9 Aug. 2017
  • And this defensive solidity has meant that Brazil have conceded just six goals in 25 games and just one at this World Cup.
    SI.com, 3 July 2018
  • Here the devil (or was that the angel?) clearly was in the details — particularly the craggy majesty of the five horns, the solidity of rhythm, the play of light and air in Brahms' textures.
    John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 12 May 2017
  • But Ken has reached that dangerous age (the script puts it at 59) when solidity suddenly looks like sham.
    Ben Brantley, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2017
  • The mug really does seem to be red: its redness seems as real as its roundness and its solidity.
    Anil K. Seth, Scientific American, 27 Aug. 2019
  • The dialogue between the two provides texture and solidity — the marrow of life in a frenzied hive.
    John Leland, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Oblak was left relatively untroubled, though, such was the solidity of the players in front of him.
    SI.com, 23 Sep. 2017
  • The weight and solidity continue in the actual drive mechanism of the Kickr.
    James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 29 Jan. 2019
  • Helium-3 to the rescue To make the case for super-solidity, researchers turned to a form of helium that does not turn into a super-solid: helium-3.
    Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 10 Dec. 2018
  • The ground, a metaphor for solidity and stability, erupts.
    Jeb Lund, Esquire, 8 Sep. 2017
  • But for all their defensive solidity this season, scoring has been a problem for the Fire.
    Jeremy Mikula, chicagotribune.com, 9 Apr. 2022
  • This high-toned style is further displayed in the trim and sharp-outlined fashions pressed and starched to the stiffness of armor, the hair sprayed and baked and pomaded to a helmet-like solidity.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2023
  • There are two factors that are also important: the thickness of the material and its solidity.
    WIRED, 27 Oct. 2023

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