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Example sentences for: fortress

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When Pollak turns to Bettelheim's career at the Orthogenic School, he indicts the psychoanalyst for wholesale abuse of power and implies a facile symmetry: This camp victim identified with the aggressors, and went on to become a Gestapo figure in his own well-barricaded fortress.
Abd-er-Rahman III built this hilltop fortress in the 10th century and gradually a settlement grew up around the walls.
It's Miyazaki's use of sound--and silence--that takes your breath away: the determined tap of the wolf princess's shoes as she scuttles over the fortress's rooftops; the silence of Eboshi and her army as they stare at this tiny yet formidable tomboy against the black sky.
In a burst of optimism, the city bid for worldwide recognition with the Universal Exposition of 1888, built on the site of the hated Ciutadella fortress.
The victorious Christian army of Ferdinand and Isabella celebrated mass here when the fortress finally fell into their hands in 1487.