redoubt

Example Sentences

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The staging of the former’s broomstick flights is “Top Gun” for tween girls, and her castle in the sky is a strangely scary redoubt somewhere between Tim Burton and a German Expressionist film.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

Geneviève de Galard became a celebrated figure exactly 70 years ago when she was the only woman nurse tending French casualties inside the doomed redoubt of Dien Bien Phu in northern Vietnam.

From BBC • May 31, 2024

Washington state could become its own time island, a sort of chronological redoubt.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 9, 2023

These days, his Beverly Hills redoubt is in disrepair, while an expired Russian passport and fear of possible arrest prevent him from traveling internationally.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2023

He could continue to sleep in the birch, where, if not completely protected, he had the advantage of a high redoubt, the upper hand in case of a conflict.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig