How to Use redoubt in a Sentence

redoubt

noun

• The refugees gathered in a hilly redoubt several miles outside the city.
• For soldiers, Azovstal is the last redoubt in the city.
  — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
• Toward the end of April, the Azovstal plant became the last redoubt.
  — Vivian Salama, WSJ, 17 May 2022
• The island redoubt of Corregidor, at the mouth of the bay, fell May 6.
  — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 25 May 2020
• The House has remained a redoubt of support from Trump.
  — W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner, 5 Feb. 2021
• Bitcoin needs a safe redoubt, and along came El Salvador, ready to be just that.
  — Wired, 30 June 2021
• Daniels discovers a cavelike redoubt deep in the earth and claims it for his own.
  — Colin Asher, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2021
• The jihadists’ last redoubt is likely to be the city of Deir ez-Zor, in eastern Syria.
  — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
• The remains of the redoubt are in the interstate's median.
  — Phil Gast, CNN, 25 Jan. 2020
• These were the redoubts of the despised haute bourgeoisie, who lounged in ease while the rest of France languished, and riot was the answer to that inequity.
  — Christopher Ketcham, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
• And no wonder: The hotel, along with being perhaps London’s most stylish redoubt right now, is home to the Punch Room, one of the hottest clubs in town.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
• Herrero grew up in a family of brawny, oddball leftists in the right-wing redoubt of Toulon, on the Mediterranean coast.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
• The Democrats’ latest hopes for Texas - still a Republican redoubt - emerged the day after the 2016 elections.
  — Kevin Diaz, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Mar. 2018
• So is the broader question of whether the street can shake off its image as a fusty redoubt of old-school haberdashery.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2020
• In a chaotic city, Rakhlin’s class offered teen-agers a redoubt of discipline.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 29 May 2017
• French soldiers were to take one redoubt, Americans led by Lt.
  — Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati.com, 3 July 2018
• In the shrinking rebel redoubt on the eastern side of the city, intense artillery shelling and airstrikes forced residents to cower in basements.
  — Anne Barnard, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2016
• But make no mistake: Overall, the U.S. Open is a province of the superelite, a redoubt of privilege.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 25 Aug. 2017
• The insurgents, though weakened, were left secure in their redoubt.
  — Jake Maxwell Watts, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2017
• Al-Nusra’s fighters surrendered to the government on April 30th and boarded buses bound for Idlib, a rebel redoubt in the north.
  — The Economist, 3 May 2018
• In his basement redoubt, Bussard walks over to his wall of records to make another selection.
  — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 5 June 2022
• But there is also graffiti identifying the block as a redoubt of the Rolling 30s Bloods gang, which has operated in the area for decades.
  — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021
• The Moors were kicked out of Granada, their last redoubt, in 1492, but their legacy of ebullient patterning persisted.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 9 Oct. 2021
• The training camp, nicknamed Palmyra after the Syrian city, stretched more than a mile long in the train tunnel outside this city, once the militants’ main Iraqi redoubt.
  — Ben Kesling, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2017
• Putin ordered a tight blockade of the steel plant, the Ukrainians’ final redoubt, which is a sprawling collection of above- and below-ground structures.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2022
• Syrian and Russian forces are trying to crush the last redoubt of revolution there.
  — Mike Ives, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2020
• The rocky cave doubles as an undersea redoubt, like those little castles made for a kid’s aquarium but here blown up to mammoth size.
  — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 24 May 2018
• One proposal is to create a green space that can act as a symbolic nod toward Sherwood Forest, in legend the redoubt of Robin Hood and his merry men, who robbed the rich to give to the poor.
  — New York Times, 18 May 2021
• The change is part of a pattern that has remade the West, turning the onetime Republican redoubt into a deep well of Democratic support.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2023
• And a potential Israeli push against the last major redoubt at Rafah, on the southern border with Egypt, jeopardizes more than 1 million Gazan refugees who have been driven there over the course of the ongoing war.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024