bastille
Example Sentences
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The choir won the public vote in Saturday's semi-final, singing Pompeii by Bastille, and will perform in the final alongside golden buzzer winner Celestial and teenager Rafferty Coope, from Hampshire.
From BBC • May 24, 2026
It’s a digital storming of the Bastille, but with Paris gone global.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 7, 2026
Parisians storming the Bastille on July 14, 1789, became a model of popular action later adopted, in 1917, by the Russian Revolution.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
The restaurant is housed at the Consulat Voltaire, an old electricity sub-station turned cultural centre, in the 11th district of Paris near the place de la Bastille.
From Barron's • Oct. 11, 2025
What is the point in pretending I am in the Bastille?
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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