Collocations for strong - adj.

be, feel, look
become, get, grow
remain, stay
prove
stand
We must stand strong in the face of adversity.

finish
The men's golf team finished strong on Saturday.

make sb
All that outdoor work has made him very strong.

keep sth
This news helped keep the dollar relatively strong today.

smell, taste

extremely, fairly, very, etc.
He exerts an extremely strong influence on his classmates.

exceptionally, immensely, incredibly
surprisingly
Sales were surprisingly strong in the second half of the year.

enough
Don't try to go back to work before you are physically strong enough.
The party lacks a strong enough local base.

physically

be still going strong
The business is still going strong.

Strong is used with these nouns:
accent, acid, action, advocate, affection, affinity, alcohol, ale, allegiance, alliance, ally, antagonism, antipathy, appeal, argument, arm, aroma, assertion, association, attachment, attraction, aversion, awareness, back, background, backing, bag, balance sheet, base, beer, belief, believer, bias, bid, bond, bone, brandy, breeze, build, campaign, candidate, case, cast, challenge, challenger, chance, character, cheese, chest, chin, cider, claim, claw, coalition, coffee, colour, comeback, commitment, competition, competitor, condemnation, confidence, connection, connotation, consensus, constitution, contender, contingent, contrast, contribution, conviction, cord, core, correlation, counter-attack, craving, credentials, criticism, critique, cup, currency, current, defence, demand, denial, denunciation, desire, determination, disagreement, disapproval, dislike, dissent, distaste, distinction, dose, drink, drive, drug, earnings, earthquake, echo, economy, effect, ego, electric shock, embrace, emotion, emphasis, encouragement, endorsement, enforcement, evidence, executive, faith, favourite, feeling, fibre, field, fight, finish, flavour, flour, focus, following, foothold, footing, force, fortress, foundation, friendship, front, fundamentals, gain, gale, government, grasp, gravity, grip, ground, growth, gust, hand, heart, hint, hold, hunch, idea, identity, ideology, illumination, imagination, immunity, impact, impetus, implication, impression, impulse, incentive, inclination, indication, influence, instinct, interaction, interest, jaw, language, lead, leader, leadership, leg, lens, letter, light, lighting, likelihood, likeness, liking, limb, line, link, liquor, lobby, loyalty, lure, magnet, majority, male, mandate, market, measure, medicine, melody, memory, message, military, monarchy, moral, motivation, motive, mouth, move, muscle, nail, nation, navy, neck, need, network, nose, objection, odour, opinion, opponent, opposition, overtone, parallel, partnership, passion, performance, perfume, personality, physique, pitch, plastic, player, plea, point, poison, position, possibility, precedent, preference, prejudice, presence, pressure, presumption, prime minister, probability, profile, profit, protest, pull, pulse, push, reaction, reason, rebuke, reception, recommendation, record, recovery, relationship, reliance, reminder, representation, reputation, resemblance, reservation, resistance, resolution, response, restriction, rhythm, rise, root, rope, ruler, rumour, sale, scent, sedative, sensation, sense, sentiment, shade, shadow, shoe, shoulder, showing, side, signal, similarity, smell, socialist, solution, son, squad, stance, stand, start, state, statement, stem, stench, stimulus, stomach, streak, stress, stroke, suggestion, sun, sunlight, support, supporter, suspicion, swimmer, syllable, sympathy, tackle, taste, tea, team, temptation, tendency, term, thigh, thread, tide, tie, tobacco, tooth, tradition, trend, turnout, union, urge, view, voice, warning, whiff, will, willpower, wind, wine, wish, woman, word