Example sentences for: fortified

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

  • It is surrounded by a deep, wide, dry moat, thick walls, and fortified grass-covered earthworks.

  • Under constant threat for more than 200 years, the population drifted inland, taking refuge in fortified towns and villages hidden in the foothills of the Sierras.

  • Felanitx is the starting point for a bracing trip to Castell de Santueri, a ruined hilltop castle that was fortified by every ruler from Roman times to the 17th century.

  • Turin was little more than a fortified village of 40,000 inhabitants in 1600, but it rose to 93,000 a century later.

  • The Venetians fortified their main towns — Naxos Town and Antiparos Town are wonderful examples of this — creating labyrinths of narrow alleys and cul-de-sacs that were designed to confuse and to demoralize invaders.


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