Its body flips and spins, guarding itself with its altogether more sturdy metal casing.
Builders could tell you how important foundation is to build a sturdy house that will last for a long time.
Multi-purpose travel towels packed like pills. Simply pop one out, soak with a little water and the pill instantly transforms into a sturdy towel.
Researchers at Rothamsted Research redesigned the model to allow for elasticity and flexibility in the spider's dragline, its most sturdy line of silk used for moving about and snagging prey.
He's a very sturdy child and very healthy.
Keep your camera motionless by using a sturdy tripod and a shutter release cord.
They are asked to build a tall and sturdy tower using the smallest possible number of snap-together Lego bricks.
When woven together, as they would be in policies ranging from the Monroe Doctrine to the Marshall Plan, they were the warp and woof of a sturdy foreign policy.
They strode on their sturdy legs down the street.
In Misrata, which withstood a three-month siege and is the country's third city, similarly sturdy groups have been formed.
His bones were sturdy, but a fracture was visible above the right temple, and the right collarbone was fractured, also before death.
They are also closely linked to physiological ones, like virility and a sturdy immune system.
He imagined building a boat of his own, something simple but sturdy that could at the very least make its way across the gulf to Saudi Arabia.
As one kind of building materials, wood is inadequately sturdy.
Even though the markets are charging exorbitant annual rates (32%) for Ukrainian dollar debt (see chart), the coffers seem sturdy enough.
A fiery steed is not trained in a courtyard, nor does a pine grow sturdy in a greenhouse.
Over the years still sturdy deck, old wooden chair creak, followed the British gentleman character.
Based on ancient Inuit eyewear, each pair of slanties is handcrafted and engineered to be sturdy and reliable.
A worker's sturdy frame.
Say the word 'cactus,' and many people get a mental picture of a thick, straight up trunk with rounded tip, and sturdy branches curving to the vertical in a candelabra effect.