Example sentences for: bastion

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

  • The sturdy Gothic church of Sant Jaume forms the southern bastion in the walls.

  • Now that bastion of tradition is itself under attack, not by deconstructionists and postmodernists but by economists and accountants.

  • From the Parc de l’Esplanade, drive up the Côte de la Citadelle hill road and through a tunnel for a guided tour around a powerful bastion of fears long gone.

  • Many died from disease and malnutrition before the work was complete, but the dockyard proved to be a bastion of the British Empire and served to protect the motherland even as recently as World War II.

  • If they let you through (they usually do), walk past the Dauphin bastion to the handsomely carved stone portside gate, Porte Frédéric.


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