Example sentences for: bastille

How can you use “bastille” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The large, circular place de la Bastille is enjoying a new lease on life.

  • Just to the east, Les Halles, Beaubourg (around the Centre Georges-Pompidou), and place de la Bastille have each been transformed by controversial projects.

  • His entry for 14 July 1789, the day the Bastille was stormed, reads Rien (Nothing).

  • Two months later, the blindness of the king’s conservative advisors and the king’s own weakness and vacillation led to the explosion of centuries of frustration and rage — which culminated in the storming of the Bastille, the regime’s prison-fortress in Paris.

  • The Bastille was stormed the next day.


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