citadel

She is the princess, and this is the castle she’ll be locked in, an indomitable beast of a citadel fittingly titled the Tower Hotel.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

It is a literal citadel with a natural, crystal-blue moat surrounding it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

Conscious of the difficulties of repatriating Behzad's artworks, Barry instead enlarged and reproduced them in 2017 for an exhibition at Herat's citadel.

From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026

Peru is home to many of the Americas' most significant archaeological discoveries, including the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu in the Andes and the mysterious Nazca Lines etched into the desert along the central coast.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2025

The word had no place in the citadel of the Mesarthim.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

This evidence suggests that ritual specialists, perhaps priests, lived and performed religious functions in the citadels that may have required them to bathe in the large public bath and congregate in the hall.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

Lebanon has five other sites on UNESCO's World Heritage list, most of them citadels and ancient temples.

From Reuters ● Feb. 5, 2023

I think the retreat from the Lost Cause has also meant a kind of raising of new citadels around the idea of the nation.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2021

These institutions hold themselves out as citadels of morality.

From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2017

Now a few affluent evangelicals are directing their attention and money at some of the tallest citadels of the secular elite: Ivy League universities.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times