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bastille

noun as in fortress

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Example Sentences

“If we have a fourth one, Jerusalem will become a new bastille.”

Reading some of the coverage, you’d think someone was storming the bastille.

From Forbes

“There are more prisoners in my bastille, my jail, and higher costs for arrests.”

From US News

Chains cannot bind that down; bastilles cannot shut it in; and every attempt to crush it is but an effort of tyranny both impotent and cruel.

"And he is now incarcerated in your bastille."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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