fortressed

Example Sentences

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The weather had warmed, the cherry trees had blossomed and the fencing that had fortressed the District’s power centers since the violent insurrection on Jan. 6 was beginning to fall away.

From Washington Post • Apr. 3, 2021

She had spent months outside the White House advocating for Black people like her, and she watched as the fortressed fencing around Lafayette Square went up, then down, then up again.

From Washington Post • Oct. 30, 2020

She has fortressed her garden with towering spears of bamboo.

From The Guardian • Jan. 7, 2020

But the climax came when the wizened little man who lives in the fortressed home in Pocantico Hills, N. Y., said: "My son and I have for some days past been purchasing sound common stock."

From Time Magazine Archive

My mother fortressed it in her bosom, as if it were a golden nugget.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane