How to Use fortified in a Sentence

fortified

adjective
  • When done, our hair felt fortified and ready for new products to penetrate the hair shaft.
    Anaja I. Smith, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Suntory was founded making fortified wine but then moved into whisky and later soft drinks.
    Charlie Campbell, TIME, 13 Oct. 2024
  • Finally, the 15 acres of grounds include a meadow surrounded by apple and beech trees, the moat around the fortified house, and a pond.
    Annabelle Dufraigne, Architectural Digest, 28 Sep. 2024
  • The finds, including extensive fortified cities and stunning artifacts, helped rewrite the region’s history.
    Byvaishnavi Chandrashekhar, science.org, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The Madera Wine Trail is known for its dessert and fortified wines.
    Jamie Moore, USA TODAY, 5 June 2024
  • The border area, one of the most fortified in the world, is overseen by the United Nations.
    Leo Sands, Washington Post, 18 July 2023
  • The work begins low to the ground, but its walls swiftly rise to suggest a fortified city, or a temple.
    Alexandra Schwart, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2021
  • He was born in the dark years of the revolution: the era of walls, sandbags, fortified basements, and closed doors.
    Kareem Abdulrahman, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022
  • La Rochelle, a small fortified city known for seafood, is located on the Bay of Biscay.
    Rosecrans Baldwin, Travel + Leisure, 7 Sep. 2024
  • The disgraced soldier was being sent back to the U.S. to be kicked out of the Army but headed for the fortified nation instead.
    USA TODAY, 20 July 2023
  • Speaking of drinks — be sure to check out the famous fortified wine named after the island where it was made.
    Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 15 June 2023
  • The disgraced soldier was being sent back to the US to be kicked out of the army, but headed for the fortified nation instead.
    5 Things Podcast Transcript, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
  • For example, large volcanic rocks peek through the curved glass island in the kitchen, while a fortified branch and stone hoist up a desk in the office.
    Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 3 Apr. 2024
  • After a nearby block of the same street sank four years later, neighbors asked the city to convert the fortified, yet still closed road to a small park.
    Colin Campbell, baltimoresun.com, 28 Apr. 2021
  • The bread is then cut and roasted to serve with the chicken before being drenched in a thick fortified chicken au jus.
    Chelsea Davis, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Some of those releases are finished in up to three unique casks ranging from amaro to rum to fortified wines.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 27 Aug. 2023
  • One 8-ounce glass of fortified juice usually has around 100 IUs of vitamin D, but the amount varies from brand to brand.
    Ella Quittner, Health, 9 Feb. 2024
  • And no visit would be complete without indulging in the fortified wine and the fresh seafood for which the island is famous.
    Susmita Baral, Travel + Leisure, 11 July 2023
  • An ace, a run at Brandon Nimmo to replace Bellinger, a re-fortified bullpen?
    Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2022
  • But in April of last year, a segment of the fortified town’s southern perimeter wall suffered collapses—and the site was forced to close.
    Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Sep. 2023
  • A lot of the flavor comes from Marsala, which is a dry fortified wine similar to sherry, made in Sicily.
    Christopher Michel, Country Living, 19 Mar. 2023
  • At a fortified base in Nyamitwitwi, near the border with Uganda, rangers piloted a drone along the park’s perimeter fence.
    Declan Walsh Arlette Bashizi, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2023
  • But many defectors who risked their lives to cross the fortified border find their new lives a second chance.
    Hakyung Kate Lee, ABC News, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The 14-acre site was surrounded by fortified walls and guard towers.
    Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2022
  • Tarawa was one of the most fortified atolls America would invade in the Pacific during the war.
    Natasha Frost Maud Bodoukian Meyrant, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2023
  • The crystal: Red Jasper to feel fortified and protected.
    Precious Lee, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The class has learned that Afghan students risk their lives just by walking through the tutoring center’s fortified gates.
    New York Times, 22 Jan. 2022
  • But there's a new focus on Punakha, known for its scenic river and imposing dzong (fortified monastery).
    Brandon Presser, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Nov. 2023
  • On the other side of a metal railing, the wake from passing ferries lapped at New York’s fortified shoreline.
    Daniel A. Gross, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2023
  • Najjar lives east of Khan Younis, in a town that is half a mile from the fortified barrier that marks the border with Israel.
    Adam Rasgon, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2023

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