Sample Sentences for
bastion
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    "Bastion de la Hollande," she whispers, and her fingers walk down a little staircase.  (source)
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    This side of the castle, perhaps a hundred feet high, was the pink bastion they had seen from the mountain-top.  (source)
    bastion = defensive fortification (like a castle wall)
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    To the North there were low pale-coloured hills, in places bastioned with rock.  (source)
    bastioned = protected
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    A newly completed bastion at Cobble Hill, below Prospect Hill and fully a half mile nearer to Boston, was described in the Providence Gazette as "the most perfect piece of fortification that the American army has constructed during the present campaign."  (source)
    bastion = defensive fortification
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    Very strong it might be, wrought of steel and iron, and guarded with towers and bastions of indomitable stone, yet it was the key, the weakest point in all that high and impenetrable wall.  (source)
    bastions = defensive fortifications
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    Below the window, on one of the bastioned traces on the seaward side of the hotel, waits the big 88.  (source)
    bastioned = fortified
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    And that bastion of high culture, Gilligan's Island, had an episode where Phil Silvers, famous as TV's Sergeant Bilko and therefore adding to the highbrow content, was putting together a musical Hamlet, the highlight of which was Polonius's "Neither a borrower nor a lender be" speech set to the tune of "Habanera" from Bizet's Carmen.  (source)
    bastion = prominent example
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    No one had ever mentioned Asirgarh to her, but it had huge and noble bastions and to the right of them was a mosque.  (source)
    bastions = defensive fortifications
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    He even said that "a key element of the U.S.-Soviet agenda" is "more responsible Soviet conduct around the world"—as if the United States were a bastion of "responsible conduct around the world"!†  (source)
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    Langdon looked out at the towering stone bastions that loomed ahead-impenetrable fortifications surrounding the complex ... a strangely earthly defense for a spiritual world of secrets, power, and mystery.  (source)
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    Murders happened everywhere, but Soho was an arty bastion for the young and struggling who more often debated their disagreements over tiny glasses of cheap wine or cups of cafe Oil, watercolor, and compu artists hawked their wares on corners and in storefronts, competing with food vendors who promised hybrid fruits, iced yogurts, or vegetable purees uncontaminated by preservatives.†  (source)
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    Here Saturn's grey chaos rolls over me, and I obtain dim, shuddering glimpses into those Polar eternities; when wedged bastions of ice pressed hard upon what are now the Tropics; and in all the 25,000 miles of this world's circumference, not an inhabitable hand's breadth of land was visible.†  (source)
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    And Wall Street, certain firms in that originally WASP financial bastion, at any rate.†  (source)
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