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

Belgium, having some money in hand, rebuilt and improved in detail a number of bastioned fortresses which had fallen into disrepair.

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

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

In practice such niceties of course disappeared, though occasionally when the ground allowed of it star forts and bastioned fronts were employed.

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