fortified
Example Sentences
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From Marshal Vauban, whose belt of fortified cities protected Louis XIV’s France, to Baron Haussmann, who created boulevard-lined Paris for Napoleon III, the French have always shown administrative genius in their national building campaigns.
This is Fruity Martini 2.0 — a renaissance built on nostalgia, but fortified with skill.
From Salon
A fresco in the Vatican Library shows bishops holding the Council of Nicaea in a basilica outside the walls of a fortified city, near a lake.
California’s governor gambled and won, raised his national profile and fortified his fund-raising base.
From Los Angeles Times
The crew locked themselves inside a fortified citadel while the attackers took control of the ship.
From BBC
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