bastioned

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

But the Germans had not yet solved the Red Army's technique of taking bastioned cities by complex, encircling attacks.

From Time Magazine Archive

Below the window, on one of the bastioned traces on the seaward side of the hotel, waits the big 88.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

They were soon in the majority; perhaps because the symmetry and completeness of the idea The bastioned trace. captivated the imagination.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various

It is a very ancient place, set upon a hill and bastioned round with walls that are too high to scale, and were once impregnable.

From The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise by Paine, Albert Bigelow

At all events the bastioned trace, once fairly developed, held the field in one form or another practically without a rival until near the end of the 18th century.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various