How to Use citadel in a Sentence

citadel

noun

• We visited a medieval citadel in Italy.
• One by one continue to fall the last possible citadels of defense against uncontradicted Nazi dictatorship.
  — Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
• For the best views, head up to the clifftop and visit the citadel that watches over the town.
  — Ingrid K. Williams, Travel + Leisure, 6 Jan. 2024
• And that’s the reason reason has yet to dent the citadel of MAGA, and never will.
  — Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 22 Apr. 2024
• The citadel remained the seat of Egypt’s government until the 1860s.
  — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 19 Mar. 2019
• The ancient citadel rises 400 feet above the ivory town of Lindos.
  — Nick Kontis, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2023
• Even so, the name has stuck through the site’s transition from citadel to showplace.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2020
• On the far side of the citadel, a mysterious trench bisects a field of bedrock.
  — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
• In the years that followed, Hayward Field would become a sports citadel, but not of the sport that launched it.
  — oregonlive, 8 July 2022
• It’s that citadel at the end of time where the first Kang (Jonathan Majors) version appears.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 30 July 2021
• When the citadel reopened, the government capped the number of tourists at 2,244 per day.
  — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2023
• Does a four-year stint at a citadel of higher learning teach us to think, rather than just to get and spend?
  — James Atlas, Town & Country, 10 July 2018
• Its position in the citadel, perched high above the city below, means the views are dazzling.
  — New York Times, 15 Dec. 2017
• All over the world people saw that, at what people around the world would see as the citadel for democracy.
  — NBC News, 21 Mar. 2021
• No sources before 1912 refer to the citadel as Machu Picchu.
  — Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2022
• The Incan citadel of Machu Picchu in Peru is known for its marvelous stonework.
  — Sid Perkins, Science | AAAS, 22 Oct. 2019
• As the prow of a five-film Disney blockbuster franchise, he will never be cast out of the citadel of extreme fame and wealth.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
• The lure is La Cité, a 10th-century citadel both fairy-tale and foreboding.
  — Katherine Wheelock, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 June 2017
• This may mean storming and occupying the citadel of law.
  — Ryan D. Doerfler, The New Republic, 13 Oct. 2020
• In good weather, crowds strolled its green parks, shopped in a suburban-style mall and hung out in a plaza at the foot of an ancient citadel.
  — Jared Malsin, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2023
• Apart from the town’s skyline, the citadel, and the rocks behind, this town along the Meuse River is the birthplace of Adolphe Sax, the inventor of the saxophone.
  — Keith Ladzinski, National Geographic, 28 July 2020
• Mr Williams often finds citadels with doors that do not close; or crews with no training on what to do if attacked.
  — The Economist, 29 June 2019
• This is about the citadel of our democracy being attacked.
  — ABC News, 23 May 2021
• Totel’s name for this citadel of knowledge is Mutropolis.
  — Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2021
• Our beloved Midwest citadels aren't exactly from the times of kings and queens, but someone put them there for a reason.
  — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 30 July 2023
• The father and son duo took in the remains of the massive ancient citadel, with Edoardo sporting a hat in the sun while his son rocked green shorts and a striped shirt.
  — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 17 Nov. 2021
• Le Chalet is a weather beaten and isolated bistro in the shadow of the gigantic citadel, at the very end of the harbor.
  — David Holahan, courant.com, 13 Sep. 2019
• There certainly was no gleaming citadel of a Target, as there is now.
  — Michael Nagrant, RedEye Chicago, 6 Oct. 2017
• An assault on the citadel of liberty, the Capitol itself.
  — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 4 Jan. 2022
• After a light breakfast, head to Machu Picchu to see the citadel in the early morning light, before the crowds arrive.
  — National Geographic, 12 June 2019

Last Updated: 22 Nov 2024