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Example sentences for: fortress

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

Built in the 18th century, this well-preserved fortress that once guarded the harbor it overlooks, now houses the late César Manrique’s small but impressive International Museum of Contemporary Art.
During a counter-offensive in 1109, the town was overrun by the Moors, but the Christianized fortress held.
Little remains of the actual fortress, but its courtyard is now an agreeable terrace where you can enjoy a drink and watch the sardine fleet returning to port.
The Rajputs made a belated alliance and fought valiantly from one desert fortress to another, but their elephants could not match their opponents’ fast horses and Afghan cavalry firing superior crossbows at the gallop.
In his most recent book, philosopher Arthur Danto claims that this bleak retreat into the fortress of the self is a permanent one.