forts

Example Sentences

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“We’re still building forts, we’re just doing it at a large scale,” Josh said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

Even if the country was never home to the coastal forts from which the trafficking of African people was organised, many enslaved people passed through it on the way to the New World.

From Barron's • Feb. 20, 2026

The region included extensive networks of forts, roads, and towns linked to the wider Roman Empire, facilitating movement across Europe, north Africa, and beyond.

From Science Daily • Jan. 25, 2026

Those who survived the hellish conditions within these forts were then forced onto ships bound for the Americas.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025

Cannons boomed from the forts lining the shore while merchants, clerks, clergy, lawyers, and omnibus drivers from Wall Street to the Bowery celebrated.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock