fortressed

Example Sentences

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“We have neighbors who have fortressed their houses in Ring cameras, and it’s gotten them nowhere — and nothing, except this false sense of panic. It creeps me out.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 22, 2021

She had spent months outside the White House advocating for Black people like her, and she watched as the fortressed fencing around Lafayette Square went up, then down, then up again.

From Washington Post • Oct. 30, 2020

She has fortressed her garden with towering spears of bamboo.

From The Guardian • Jan. 7, 2020

All at once the rifles, the tear-gas bombs, the fortressed cells�all the immense impersonal machinery of justice begins to seem absurdly excessive and inappropriate.

From Time Magazine Archive

My mother fortressed it in her bosom, as if it were a golden nugget.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane