Example sentences for: bastion

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

  • 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.

  • leaves the individual with little recourse when he's been wronged by sovereign Albany or that bastion of liberty, Harrisburg.

  • 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.

  • This bastion of the old Montréal élite of British origin became a prime target for the more violent members of the separatist Front de libération du Québec, who in the 1960s set off bombs in Westmount’s mailboxes.

  • Continue over to the King’s Bastion, the military barracks where living conditions show the kind of stark contrast that nurtured enough discontent to cause a mutiny in that year of 1744.


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