How to Use fortress in a Sentence

fortress

noun

• Fifteen or so people walked clockwise around the white, fortress-like monastery.
  — Michael Easter, Outside Online, 13 May 2021
• Cozy shops and eateries bake in the sun, nestled between a bleak colonial fortress and the wreck of a massive cargo ship.
  — Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2021
• General Dostum’s forces, in a fortress-like prison in the northern deserts of Afghanistan.
  — Brian Glyn Williams, The Conversation, 7 May 2021
• The clip starts off with Lil Baby’s verse in front of an icy fortress, with Megan appearing alongside him to lip-sync.
  — Claire Shaffer, Rolling Stone, 27 Apr. 2021
• The group built its new home into a fortress, drawing the ire of neighbors who complained of trash left outside that attracted rats and other vermin.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 1 May 2021
• But lawmakers of both parties have been reluctant to install a permanent fence around the Capitol, to avoid looking like a fortress.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 12 May 2021
• With no end to the war in sight and lacking effective air defense, Kharkiv gradually has turned from a fortress of resilience into a fortress of solitude.
  — Katya Soldak, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
• Dubrov and Mikhael convince him to abandon this suicidal plan and instead gain entry to the fortress by earning an invite through battlefield bravery.
  — Nick Schager, EW.com, 23 Apr. 2021
• Her father, who worked for the sheriff’s department, sometimes walked with her to catechism classes at the parochial school two blocks down from the stone, fortress-like St. Patrick’s church.
  — Julia Shipley, Rolling Stone, 26 May 2021
• Stoker never visited the region, but Bran Castle’s website suggests that the author would have had access to a description of the fortress.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2021
• The only representations they were allowed were through mass media or images of migrants on canoes collapsing in front of European fortresses.
  — Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2024
• The 14th-century fortress looms over a mountain pass between the historic regions of Transylvania and Wallachia.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2021
• But while the bandits might be gone, the fortress still has to fight the desert heat.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Sep. 2022
• The fortress of Bakhmut shows up on maps starting in 1701.
  — Haiane Avakian, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2023
• With all these thoughts fresh in their minds, the gang makes it to the fortress city of Fal Dara.
  — Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2021
• Two months ago, most Democrats were locked in a fortress of gloom.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2022
• The fortress erupts, and with it, the famous Mona Lisa that Miles had loaned from the Louvre.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 23 Dec. 2022
• Of course, in the series, Bill’s hideout is a fortress.
  — Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 29 Jan. 2023
• The size and shape of sand grains help decide the fate of a sculpted beach fortress.
  — Helen Czerski, WSJ, 10 June 2023
• The floating fortress is a 45-minute boat ride from the nearest town.
  — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 23 Feb. 2022
• This mighty fortress, lying at the heart of England, was one of the largest in the kingdom.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 June 2024
• The three soon started assembling a group to search for the fortress.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 21 July 2023
• Friedman put Chicago on the map as a fortress of the free market.
  — Krithika Varagur, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2024
• Fans can fight for Eternia in the Castle Grayskull fortress.
  — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 8 Aug. 2023
• Across Europe, there’s this idea of a fortress of Europe.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2024
• The date also figures in the dramatic saga of the siege of the Masada fortress not far away, on the banks of the Dead Sea.
  — Matti Friedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Dec. 2022
• The fortress sits at one of the highest points of the area, offering panoramic views of the Medieval city.
  — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 28 Aug. 2022
• Kessler also argued that the Celis house was built like a fortress with a tall wall around it.
  — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 1 Mar. 2023
• This 11th-century fortress has seen a lot of action over the years.
  — Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 13 Aug. 2023
• Ukraine held one last fortress against the invaders — the sprawling Azovstal steelworks.
  — Grayson Quay, The Week, 4 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024