fortress

Example Sentences

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My brother had his bar mitzvah at the mountaintop fortress of Masada overlooking the Dead Sea.

From Salon

The San Gabriel Mountains loom like an impregnable fortress for millions of migrating birds making their long and perilous journey to distant breeding grounds in the far north.

From Los Angeles Times

Placed together they show the morally upright New Republic to be a profoundly flawed house of cards that believes itself to be a shining fortress on a hill.

From Salon

Shrouded in greenery high above the Silver Lake Reservoir, it was once likened to an “impregnable fortress” by the Architectural Record.

From Los Angeles Times

When the wages of Amy's rage bring violent men into Jordan's fortress, the wealthy white woman's privilege ends up being her undoing, and her gruesome comeuppance becomes the plot's big "O."

From Salon