fortifying

Example Sentences

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There are limits to physically fortifying the cables.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

He was speaking to the fortifying feeling of confidence and control that comes from knowing why we use the words that we do.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

In his 2021 book, “The Real Anthony Fauci,” Kennedy defines this as “preventing disease by fortifying the immune system through nutrition and by reducing exposures to environmental toxins and stresses.”

From Salon • Nov. 29, 2025

But a year later, after an offseason focused on fortifying the Trojans’ fronts, Riley is feeling more confident ahead of Michigan’s return trip to the Coliseum on Saturday.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2025

The forest itself, ten miles across, was a tangled thicket of trees and thorny underbrush honeycombed with German tunnels, concrete dugouts, and machine-gun nests that the Germans had spent four years fortifying.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman