bastioned

Example Sentences

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But the Germans had not yet solved the Red Army's technique of taking bastioned cities by complex, encircling attacks.

From Time Magazine Archive

Below the window, on one of the bastioned traces on the seaward side of the hotel, waits the big 88.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

But yonder, impassive above this scene of persecution and confusion, towered the bastioned crags of the great mountain.

From A Vendetta of the Desert by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)

It is a very ancient place, set upon a hill and bastioned round with walls that are too high to scale, and were once impregnable.

From The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise by Paine, Albert Bigelow

He appears to have been the first who frankly advocated the tenaille alone, chiefly on the ground that the flank, which was the most important part of the bastioned system, was also the weakest.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various