How to Use staunch in a Sentence

staunch

1 of 2 adjective

• She is a staunch advocate of women's rights.
• I'm one of his staunchest supporters.
• He's a staunch believer in the value of regular exercise.
• On the contrary, the men have become staunch creatures of habit.
  — Carlos Aguilar, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2023
• Julianne Moore is a staunch hater of one of the world’s most beloved comfort foods.
  — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 18 Dec. 2023
• The 1922 bill failed in the Senate with the staunch opposition of Southern Democrats.
  — Cristóbal Reyes, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2023
• The Rangers, on the other hand, have been staunch on defense, with the sixth lowest goals-against average.
  — Ian Firstenberg, Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2023
• Despite the tension, Ybarra, 47, has staunch supporters on and off the board.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 23 Mar. 2023
• Powered by 178 rushing yards and a staunch defense, many could have believed that the game was all but over at that point.
  — Brendan Connelly, The Enquirer, 9 Sep. 2023
• Germany has for decades been a staunch supporter of Israel.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 8 Apr. 2024
• Crow, long a staunch supporter of the conference, is now tasked with a huge decision.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2023
• Janey has long been her brother-in-law’s staunchest defenders, with the case inspiring her to go to law school.
  — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 22 Jan. 2024
• Even some of the most staunch supporters of the electrification movement have some concerns about the new code.
  — Sabrina Shankman, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Jan. 2023
• The staunch support from oil and gas producers wasn’t preordained.
  — Laura Davison, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2024
• The heart of the game remains a fictional Massachusetts town where many of the staunchest opponents of the Mythos reside.
  — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
• The Wednesday lineup does include some of Trump's staunchest critics.
  — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2023
• The half-dozen people who spoke at the workshop were neither ardent supporters nor staunch opponents of the project.
  — Lola Sherman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2023
• Perhaps the most ironic part of the siege is that Prigozhin was once one of Putin's closest advisors, and a staunch ally up until the rebellion.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 27 June 2023
• Sanders has followed in the footsteps of her father, Mike Huckabee, a staunch conservative long before the Trump era.
  — Colby Itkowitz, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Feb. 2023
• Ann and Noot have been staunch supporters of the Nature Center since the start and have tirelessly volunteered their time and talents in so many roles.
  — Melissa Whatley, Baltimore Sun, 30 June 2023
• Ellis, a staunch Lee supporter, dismissed both the polling and the fundraising, as many other staunch Lee supporters from across the country have done.
  — Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2023
• But even the staunchest skeptic would fold under these statistics.
  — Zeniya Cooley, refinery29.com, 15 Aug. 2023
• Rankin is well-known for her staunch isolationist beliefs.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2024
• Poland, along with Hungary and Serbia, had been labeled high risk despite its staunch anti-Russia stance.
  — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 5 July 2023
• However, many experts agree that Beijing's stonewalling and failure to fully share raw data has stymied progress and forced the debate to a staunch stalemate.
  — Terry Moran, ABC News, 23 Mar. 2023
• Biden’s staunch support for Israel amid its war with Hamas has threatened his support among some young voters, per the Washington Post.
  — Mark Murray, NBC News, 27 Nov. 2023
• Now the administration in Pretoria has emerged as one of the staunchest allies of Iran and Hamas in the diplomatic war against Israel.
  — James Myburgh, National Review, 15 Nov. 2023
• Whittaker has been a staunch opponent of the bill, and has been meeting with activists and lobbying for the legislation to be changed.
  — WIRED, 6 Sep. 2023
• Even staunch opponents of medical misinformation found the bill a flawed weapon in the fight against falsehoods.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
• Moreover, despite the Kremlin’s best efforts, even staunch Putin supporters are largely ambivalent about the war.
  — Timothy Frye, Foreign Affairs, 25 Mar. 2024

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staunch

2 of 2 verb

• Two guests at the house, Cook’s cousin and her boyfriend, looked on and the boyfriend gave Trimble his shirt to staunch her bleeding, the suit detailed.
  — New York Times, 10 Nov. 2021
• Both bled onto their shirts and the competition paused as the woman tried to staunch their wounds.
  — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 16 July 2023
• While no one was inside the home at the time, the firefighters worked to staunch the flames by filling flower pots with water from the kitchen sink.
  — Anna Caplan, Dallas News, 24 June 2021
• The mayor and governor postured, but did little to staunch the wounds.
  — Molly Crabapple, The New York Review of Books, 9 June 2020
• In an attempt to staunch the bleeding, WhatsApp delayed the full rollout of the new policies for months so users would have more time to learn about the changes.
  — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 15 May 2021
• The real damage came with mid-range shots that staunched momentum as a pro-Crimson Tide crowd waited to erupt.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2023
• What can be done quickly to staunch the digital bleeding?
  — Arkansas Online, 27 Dec. 2020
• There is business to be done — calls to be made and other maneuvers to try to staunch the bleeding that everyone knows will come when the news gets out.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2023
• This lap came in the second, ending with Eric Hosmer being cut down at home by right fielder Daulton Varsho to staunch the threat.
  — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 July 2022
• The citywide lockdown of Shanghai in March to staunch the spread of Covid-19 caused widespread supply-chain disruption.
  — Catherine Wang, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
• Only Jake Keaser, who entered to start the sixth, was able to staunch the bleeding, throwing two scoreless innings.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 5 June 2022
• The huge cut in student housing represents a largely unpublicized effort to staunch the spread of the virus.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2020
• But will the attempt to turn Facebook into a TikTok-style experience be enough to staunch the bleeding?
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 25 July 2022
• Shanghai locked down on Monday, closing half the city at a time in four-day turns, to conduct a mass testing in an effort to staunch its spiraling Covid outbreak.
  — Bloomberg.com, 27 Mar. 2022
• Between 15 to 30 percent of service could be slashed, a drastic measure to staunch financial wounds caused by the coronavirus.
  — Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 4 July 2020
• Now, Sunak has announced a dramatic about-face from his predecessor: a suite of tax rises and budget cuts to try to staunch the bleeding.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 9 Dec. 2022
• Whether this will be enough to staunch criticism from developers will become apparent in the coming days and weeks.
  — David Phelan, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
• This ten year plan outlined ambitious goals to staunch the collapse of biodiversity across the globe.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Sep. 2020
• The result was an agreement with a group of American lenders to deposit tens of billions of dollars of cash into First Republic to staunch the bleeding.
  — Mark Thompson, CNN, 17 Mar. 2023
• Research shows that multiple prevention strategies can help staunch the spread of viruses in schools.
  — Rachel Reiff Ellis, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2022
• To staunch the rebellion, Assad took to attacking his own people with bombs and chemical weapons.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 8 Sep. 2022
• The night presented an opportunity to reset the campaign, or at least staunch the bleeding.
  — Rob Crilly, Washington Examiner, 7 Oct. 2020
• Many public places are now equipped with Stop the Bleed kits people can use to staunch the bleeding after a gunshot wound or injury in a car crash or another accident.
  — Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Apr. 2021
• Cassie, who miraculously emerged from the wreck unscathed, tried to staunch her partner's bleeding before grabbing a machine gun and careening off in a rage after Ronald.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 19 May 2021
• Fast Fashion Confessional Hotline is timed to staunch the temptation, launching just as young people are gearing up for back-to-school shopping, the report said.
  — Sharon Edelson, Forbes, 25 Aug. 2022
• America, like Britain, is a divided nation in need of triage, emergency attention to staunch the hateful bleeding.
  — Raven Smith, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2020
• Staff first used their bare hands to try to staunch her bleeding, and finally scrounged some sutures from another department, but there were no intravenous fluids or blood supplies for a transfusion.
  — NBC News, 11 June 2021
• Companies might have to document whether or not an acquisition would staunch competition in a nascent market.
  — Fortune, 10 Dec. 2020
• The union had agreed to pause some benefits amid the 2008 car manufacturer bailout, in which Chrysler, Ford and GM were issued billions of dollars from the federal government to staunch potential shutdowns and bankruptcy.
  — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 23 Sep. 2023
• Either way, someone will need to staunch Peacock’s losses (the streamer is projected to lose $3 billion this year, Kardashians notwithstanding).
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 26 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024