Example sentences for: stronghold

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

  • Each of these parks has its own attributes, and the whole area is a stronghold of the Spanish Lynx, but the highest peaks and the most dramatic scenery is found in the last of these, which is also the birthplace of the great Guadalquivir River.

  • A mere half-hour’s drive from Bologna on the autostrada takes you to this stronghold of the high-living d’Este dukes — archetypal scheming, murderous, lovable Renaissance villains who ruled from 1200 to 1600.

  • At the beginning of the second millennium b.c. , Jerusalem was a Canaanite mountain stronghold on a secondary trade route, far less important than biblical cities such as Hazor, Megiddo, Beth Shean, and Shechem.

  • The latest atrocity is a mass killing of 24 civilians and rebels during a raid on their supposed stronghold.

  • One of the worst-hit districts was Nada-ku, a burakumin stronghold that suffered a high casualty and death toll.


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