Example Sentences

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Bastions of downtown's underground spirit remain: Gronk's assistant, Luis Vasquez, holds regular openings and events in a 3-year-old pop-up art space in his building's Spring Street lobby called the Lobby Gallery.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2016

Bastions, palazzi, fortresses, squares and citadels are all being painstakingly restored.

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2015

Its Leeds base lends colour to an otherwise drab industrial estate, with a surplus tank beside a wall of Bastions which looks like something out of a conflict zone.

From The Guardian • Sep. 27, 2010

Marshal Smigly-Rydz, on a series of recent trips to France and other countries who have a natural stake in maintaining the "Bastions of Peace," has now managed indirectly from military quarters to mobilize considerable loans.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Bastions of virtue that I never ask to lay siege to!" broke out the other, laughing.

From Tony Butler by Lever, Charles James