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supported

[ UK /səpˈɔːtɪd/ ]
[ US /səˈpɔɹtɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. held up or having the weight borne especially from below
    supported joints in a railroad track have ties directly under the rail ends
  2. sustained or maintained by aid (as distinct from physical support)
    a club entirely supported by membership dues
    well-supported allegations

How To Use supported In A Sentence

  • The Danish Dairy Board and the Danish Ministry of Food, Agriculture, and Fisheries supported this study.
  • Mrs King is being supported by her husband Simon, a police inspector with Wiltshire Constabulary, who is also a seasoned runner.
  • The latest strategy is now seen dropping unsupported accusations across the media spectrum to the effect that the intelligence agency's assignment of Ambassador Joseph Wilson to look into the now-discredited Iraq/Niger/uranium claims were all part of a long-term insidious scheme to try and discredit the Bush Administration. Brad Friedman: Wingnuts Declare Coordinated All-Out Cross-Media War on CIA as Newest Front in TreasonGate!
  • The Dutch United Provinces supported the Americans in the Revolutionary War.
  • A more material reason for the recent spread of campus farms is probably the rise of community-supported agriculture.
  • The skin is fibreglass over a thin layer of plywood, which is itself supported by a skeleton of thicker ply, stiffened by a steel structure.
  • As the passage continues there is a section of rotten flooring supported on dubious stemples just above head height.
  • Perret considers this dispatch an anomaly: "It stands alone, unsupported, unrepeated."
  • He said the campaign fully supported the legislation and would be lobbying for the United Nations and the African Union to encourage governments in programmes to demilitarise society. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • A Republican assemblyman supported the bill, citing that half of California prisoners smoke and the development will cut health care costs.
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