bastioned

Example Sentences

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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

A bastioned wall and fosse defend the town on the north-east and south sides, while the sea entrance is protected by heavy batteries on Mount Wise.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various

But yonder, impassive above this scene of persecution and confusion, towered the bastioned crags of the great mountain.

From A Vendetta of the Desert by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)

It was not the Tibet of his imagination, the Tibet of drear, waterless stretches shut in by bastioned mountains, unscalable, snow-helmeted guards.

From Caravans By Night A Romance of India by Hervey, Harry