fortresses
Example Sentences
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Its landscape is dotted with ruins of 19th-century fortresses and munitions dumps, from a time when Japan was waging war on China and Russia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
The two studio lots also boast dozens of soundstages; century-old fortresses that would not be easily duplicated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Two medieval fortresses face each other across the Narva River separating Estonia from Russia on Europe's eastern edge.
From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026
This means researchers simply don't know what is buried in the sites, which are mainly mounds, fortresses, early roadside inns known as caravanserais and canal systems.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2024
I yanked the laces out of both, so the floppy tongues fell forward like drawbridges coming down out of beat-up, leather, no-named fortresses.
From "Ghost" by Jason Reynolds
