stronghold
Example Sentences
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He was elected to his old job as mayor of his southern stronghold of Davao in midterm elections held in May last year, though jail stopped him serving.
From Barron's
Scappaticci was raised in the Irish republican stronghold of west Belfast where he would find work as a bricklayer.
From BBC
The suburban ninth district, which sits outside Fort Worth and includes a town called White Settlement, is the very definition of a Republican stronghold.
From Salon
The area is a stronghold of Senegal's Lebou ethnic group, a fishing people closely tied to the ocean who live throughout the Dakar region.
From Barron's
Reid lost both his legs and his right arm in 2009 from having stepped on an improvised explosive device in Helmand province, a Taliban stronghold which saw some of the conflict’s fiercest fighting.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
