citadel

She is the princess, and this is the castle she’ll be locked in, an indomitable beast of a citadel fittingly titled the Tower Hotel.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

It is a literal citadel with a natural, crystal-blue moat surrounding it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

Lamberth called Strike 3 a “copyright troll” and threw out its lawsuit against an unidentified internet user for having treated his court “not as a citadel of justice, but as an ATM.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

Closer to the border, the citadel in the village of Shamaa was also partly destroyed by the Israeli military.

From Barron's ● Mar. 24, 2026

A grand moon drifted, and the wings of the citadel cut the sky in two: light above, dark below.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Lebanon has five other sites on UNESCO's World Heritage list, most of them citadels and ancient temples.

From Reuters ● Feb. 5, 2023

As they moved southward along the continent’s coast, they established citadels on land leased from local rulers, like the fortress of Elmina, located on the coast of present-day Ghana.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

I think the retreat from the Lost Cause has also meant a kind of raising of new citadels around the idea of the nation.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2021

These institutions hold themselves out as citadels of morality.

From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2017

Now a few affluent evangelicals are directing their attention and money at some of the tallest citadels of the secular elite: Ivy League universities.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times