bastioned

Example Sentences

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But the Germans had not yet solved the Red Army's technique of taking bastioned cities by complex, encircling attacks.

From Time Magazine Archive

Below the window, on one of the bastioned traces on the seaward side of the hotel, waits the big 88.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

It is a very ancient place, set upon a hill and bastioned round with walls that are too high to scale, and were once impregnable.

From The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise by Paine, Albert Bigelow

It was a leafy way, and here and there between the trees we had splendid glimpses of the bastioned walls and castle-crowned heights of Avignon.

From The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age by Paine, Albert Bigelow

It was not the Tibet of his imagination, the Tibet of drear, waterless stretches shut in by bastioned mountains, unscalable, snow-helmeted guards.

From Caravans By Night A Romance of India by Hervey, Harry