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

The fortresses around the turquoise waters of Singapore’s only sand beaches are now abandoned, but a string of British officer’s barracks in the island’s lush interior have been put to new use.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

Priests carried tabots into one of the fortresses in Gondar, where they will be kept until the end of the festivities.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2024

In addition to identifying forts similar to the walled fortresses Poidebard found, the team identified forts with interior architecture features and ones built around a mounded citadel.

From Science Daily • Oct. 27, 2023

But later on, fortresses were of little value to her when Cesare Borgia attacked her and when her hostile populace joined with the foreigner.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli