Example sentences for: forts

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

  • Ontario’s history is preserved in lovingly reconstructed villages and forts marking the passage of French Jesuit missionaries at Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons, a fur-trading post at Thunder Bay, military positions at Fort George (Niagara) and Fort Henry (Kingston), and the pioneer communities at Upper Canada Village (Morrisburg) and Black Creek (Toronto).

  • If you have time, take a glass-bottomed cruise from the port or Cala Figuera for the best views of Maó, the harbor islands, and the forts on the shore.

  • Sturdy forts protected the mountain passes, and though the remains of a bathhouse at Ravenglass suggest that creature comforts weren’t entirely lacking, life for the average Roman soldier was fairly harsh.

  • By the 17th century pirate attacks prompted the building of extensive city defenses — colossal forts, a chain across the harbor mouth, and prominent city walls — making Havana the “Bulwark of the West Indies.”

  • Children enjoy walking the walls and parapets of these forts, imagining what it would have been like to be Spanish conquistadors.


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