Sentence example with the word 'bastion'

bastion

abatis, barricade, bulwark, counterscarp, entanglement, fortalice, loophole, motte, pillbox, redoubt, tenaille

Definition n. a group that defends a principle

Last update: June 13, 2016


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Flying aircrafts has been a male bastion.   [noun]

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In the film, the princess believed the wise old man was her last bastion of hope.    [verb]

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Projecting like a bastion into the Mediterranean at a very central point, Cyrenaica seems intended to play a commercial part; but it does not do so to any extent because of (1) lack of natural harbours, Bengazi and Derna having only open and dangerous roads (this is partly due to coastal subsidence; ancient ports have sunk); (2) the difficulty of the desert routes behind it, wells beings singularly deficient in this part of the Sahara.   [Please select]

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There was a great bastion of rock jutting on to the ledge.   [Please select]

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The cannon on the bastion by the gate replied, directing their fire on the infantry column.   [Please select]

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We go out by an entrance on to a bastion, flanking the gate.   [Please select]

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He inspected the fort, and found everything in order, and a sentinel on each bastion.   [Please select]

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A look-out in a bastion on the ruined town wall promptly fired at him.   [Please select]

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The mouth is rimmed by a bastion of gravel and bits of wood cemented with silk.   [Please select]

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The bastion which surmounts the burrow, therefore, takes its origin from the temporary lid.   [Please select]

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Finding none there, she went straight to the Queen's favorite summer-house on the northern bastion.   [Please select]

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