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Example sentences for: bastions

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

Inside, there’s more art: all the major department stores project themselves as bastions of culture, maintaining their own galleries and mounting frequent world-class exhibitions of prints, painting, pottery, and sculpture.
Once a vast fortification of 49 turrets, it ranked alongside Osaka and Nagoya as one of the country’s greatest impregnable bastions.
A rebuilt stockade of six earth and log bastions connected by a wooden palisade surrounds workshops, hospital, kitchens, and the original 1796 stone powder house.
Its strong bastions and high ‘curtains’ were never taken by an enemy.
Lew Miller's decision had been a practical one: he felt it foolish to sacrifice the sales of many thousands of copies of the dictionary in the Bible Belt and other puritanical bastions of conservatism like Texas and California merely for the sake of a “couple of four-letter words.”