7 sentences with 'robust'
Example sentences and phrases with the word robust and other words derived from it.
• « When Rome fell to Germanic invaders in the mid-fifth century, the decline of organised learning began - there was simply no funding from Roman elites for what had been a robust system of public schools. »
• « While the Roman Empire in the east remained intact, with taxes going to pay for a robust army that successfully defended Roman sovereignty, Roman armies in the west were underfunded and undermanned and vulnerable. »
• « However, it was not until the late 19th century that a robust feminist movement emerged to defend women's rights. »
• « Her son, Edwin, robust and precocious for his three years and nine months, was playing with another child near the back door. »
• « Inside is a 1.94-metre-long lacquered wooden sarcophagus with the remains of a robust individual, no doubt a member of the imperial family. »
• « The hominid types identified are at least two: the robust paranthropic Australopithecus - vegetarian - and the gracile or African Australopithecus - carnivorous. Both must have lived through the signs of human activity to modify the environments provided by nature. »