fort

Example Sentences

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The Sri Lankan navy ferried the survivors to nearby Galle, famous for its 16th-century Dutch fort.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

Archaeological sites nearby include a villa at Eastbourne, a fort at Pevensey, and rural communities at Bullock Down and Birling.

From Science Daily • Jan. 25, 2026

“Nvidia is the power-hungry, dirty solution holding the fort until the competition comes in with a completely different approach,” he said.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 12, 2026

We made a little fort in the D&D basement.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 1, 2026

We make the fort bigger, giving it three new walls where the one wall fell down, and making it five-sided.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone