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Example sentences for: bastion

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It’s an amazing oasis, a bastion of civilization in a climate as cruel as any on Earth.
The Maritime Museum in the old courthouse on Bastion Square contains some fine models and navigational paraphernalia of the merchant ships of yore — whalers, steamers, and old Hudson’s Bay paddle-wheelers.
The island proved to be the last bastion of the samurai ideal, when disenfranchised warriors launched the doomed Satsuma Rebellion in their desperation to forestall the relentless march of progress.
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.