fortresses
Example Sentences
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Its landscape is dotted with ruins of 19th-century fortresses and munitions dumps, from a time when Japan was waging war on China and Russia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
She travelled to Cape Coast Castle, one of the many coastal fortresses that had been run by the British, and where enslaved people were held before enduring the brutal "Middle Passage" to the Americas.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Two medieval fortresses face each other across the Narva River separating Estonia from Russia on Europe's eastern edge.
From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026
To love a Scorpio, then, is to fiercely protect their softness with the same shadowy ardor that they use to construct their inner adamantine fortresses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2024
But later on, fortresses were of little value to her when Cesare Borgia attacked her and when her hostile populace joined with the foreigner.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
