citadel

Example Sentences

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An unverified video circulating on Russian social media including the channel of the military news outlet Zvezda showed pale smoke rising behind the main Kremlin Palace in the walled citadel after the purported incident.

From Reuters

By contrast, anti-Stratfordians regard themselves as a valiant band storming the citadel of entrenched but mistaken Shakespearean orthodoxy.

From Washington Post

Later on, six drawings from 1956 indicate an awed response to the smooth fronts, curved corners and imaginative shapes of the magnificent dry stone walls of Sacsayhuamán, the Inca citadel near Cuzco, Peru.

From New York Times

“We stood as a citadel of freedom for people across this country, and indeed across the world,” he told supporters on election night.

From Washington Post

The place is a citadel of pollution — industrial and otherwise.

From New York Times