Example sentences for: bulwark

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

  • Brooks, the bulwark of liberal humanism at the furthest reaches of the galaxy on the stultifying TV series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , is too comfortable dropping high-toned pronouncements such as "Your rhetoric and your propaganda aren't going to save you."

  • Carey's history is a bulwark against the recent charges.

  • Their campaign has two main purposes, it said: first, to find a pretext for the West to distance itself from Boris Yeltsin, whom it no longer needs as a bulwark against communism; and second, to dump Gore as a contender for the presidency.

  • The serpentine stone bulwark and elevated highway became Wanlichangcheng — “The Wall Ten Thousand Li Long” (about 6,000 km/3,700 miles).

  • The more common response among Jews was to devote themselves to Zionism as a bulwark against future persecution, or to engage in symbolic retribution (banning Wagner from Israeli national radio), or to pursue justice through the Nuremberg war crimes tribunals or other legitimate arenas of justice.


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