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The Captain was not a picky eater, and the mainstay of his diet was brandy Alexanders.
The first pick of Fox's second draft was Jordan Gross, who has become a mainstay at right tackle.
Phosphates, potash, and agricultural produce are the mainstay of the economy.
That tells us about a time in the past when sheep were the mainstay of the economy.
The winery also produced a very wide range of other wines, but Cabernet was and is its mainstay.
Yes, of course, but I see the belt knife as the hunter and woodsman's mainstay tool.
Fur seals, traditionally a mainstay in the Aleut diet, are declining in number for reasons that are not yet understood.
The mainstay of initial treatment is a structured regimen of physical therapy.
It is impossible not to be reminded of the frenzied media reportage that has become the mainstay of American television news coverage.
The lethality, hardiness, and ease of production of the anthrax bacteria have made it a mainstay of known BW programs.
Cut glass crystal was the mainstay and it took the intervention of fashion designers into the glass industry to turn the thinking around.
Dyskinesias are caused by levodopa, the mainstay medication in Parkinson's treatment.
Equine-derived antivenin to snake venom has been the mainstay of hospital treatment for venomous snakebite for 35 years.
The mainstay of the helicopter fleet, the Oryx, was due for an in-service upgrade.
Visiting is a mainstay of social life, mostly within the circle of extended family.
International trade was the mainstay of Macau as a free port, and has been important until recently.
Ever since, Martin has been a mainstay on the Jets' offense, and in their locker room.
The plans were a mainstay of the amalgamation process and the beacon to guide sustainable development.
After 37 years, the wreck has become something of a mainstay for divers in the area, but it is still excellent.
State-sponsored works remained the mainstay of many painters until the end of the Second Empire.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The mainstay of every farmer, aside from his cornfield, was his litter of razorback hogs.
It was, however, this up-country which had been the mainstay of the Jeffersonian party.
The landsknecht infantry constituted the mainstay of the imperial armies in the 16th century.
The working people of any community are the mainstay and backbone of that community.
Sieys had lost his mainstay in Joubert, and his prestige by the defeat at Novi.
The conception of civil aviation as the mainstay of air power as a whole is right.
Hoxha has regarded the security police as an elite group, and they have been the mainstay of his power.
Blue and white lobelia, red salvias and geraniums and other bedding favourites could be the mainstay for many borders.
An unbeaten 118 from Brendan Taylor, scored off 125 balls with four sixes and seven fours, was the mainstay of Zimbabwe's innings.
Kuvalda loses his mainstay when his comrade, the schoolmaster, dies.
The unversed in office politics may feel that a task which is a mainstay of any personal assistant's job could provoke such fear.
It is the mainstay of our moral system in England, Lady Stutfield.
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