citadel

Example Sentences

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After the pirates had boarded the tanker, the crew sought refuge in a citadel — a safe area on the ship — in line with the onboard anti-piracy emergency protocol.

From Seattle Times

But in the security of their fortified citadel, Myanmar's military believes that brute force, used on an increasingly exhausted population, will eventually cement their regime.

From BBC

Florida’s governor says his state is a magnet because he’s “created a citadel of freedom.”

From Washington Post

Although there was no explicit permission to cut sculptures off the Parthenon, Elgin apparently took an expansive view, carting off about half of the surviving sculptures on the Athenian citadel.

From New York Times

In a speech last fall, Yenor mocked feminists as "medicated, meddlesome and quarrelsome" and universities as "the citadels of our gynecocracy."

From Salon