fortresses
Example Sentences
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Two medieval fortresses face each other across the Narva River separating Estonia from Russia on Europe's eastern edge.
From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026
Fish, the 34-year-old councilmember, happens to be a renter in a block-spanning “luxury” apartment complex: “One of those fortresses that everyone makes fun of.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 23, 2025
Begun in the 15th century, the 25,000-mile network undulated over the Andes and west coast of South America, replete with stone paths, rope bridges, staircases, fortresses, inns and warehouses to serve relays of royal runners.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
These sites included large Roman cities, military fortresses, and small rural towns.
From Science Daily • Dec. 7, 2023
People who once held family fortresses against wind and weather, against scourges of frost and drought and insect enemies, now cluster against the busy breast of the big town.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
