How to Use bastion in a Sentence

bastion

noun

• While auctions may be thought to be bastions of red wine, whites do surprisingly well on the block.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 25 Nov. 2024
• Parno's team also found only one circular bastion on one corner, rather than four.
  — NBC News, 26 Mar. 2021
• The ultimate bastion for Russian submarines is in the far north, under the pack ice.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2021
• Butler rose to prominence in the traditionally white bastion of science fiction.
  — USA Today, 10 Apr. 2021
• Whoever takes the torch from Newsom will preside over a bastion of liberal resistance to Trump.
  — Grant Stringer, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
• Spanish in origin, the Chamorros rose to be a bastion of the establishment by the 1850s.
  — The Economist, 31 Mar. 2021
• The town is a bastion of support for Hezbollah and a proud source of its fighting men, whose identities are usually only revealed publicly in death.
  — Rania Abouzeid, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
• But until recently, the military had been one bastion of resistance to this transformation.
  — Mackubin Owens, Washington Examiner, 1 Apr. 2021
• And now that the neighborhood has become a bastion of wealth, some current residents and housing rights activists question what preservationists are trying to protect.
  — New York Times, 4 Apr. 2021
• Whatever some of its defenders might like to claim, the EU has never been a bastion of (classical) liberal economics.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 26 Mar. 2021
• Over the next four decades Korbet’s was a bastion that served generations of customers, as the city limits marched westward and the Loop became a part of Midtown.
  — al, 8 Apr. 2021
• To be fair, Yale has not been a bastion of free speech.
  — Lauren Noble, National Review, 14 Aug. 2022
• Bill felt the bleachers were the last bastion of the common man and woman.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 27 Sep. 2022
• The area has long been a bastion of resistance in Afghanistan.
  — Saphora Smith, NBC News, 1 Sep. 2021
• But who will be the final holdout, the last bastion of the DIY gearbox?
  — Steven Ewing, Ars Technica, 13 Feb. 2023
• There was a bastion at one corner for a canon, Parno said.
  — David Williams, CNN, 20 May 2021
• The coldwater rivers and streams above the dam are thought to offer a bastion for the fish as the climate turns warmer.
  — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 22 Sep. 2023
• That makes databases the last bastion of vendor lock-in.
  — Mike Waas, Forbes, 1 July 2022
• Once the bastion of the privileged few, the campus soon came to be seen as a way station along the road to the middle class.
  — New York Times, 13 May 2022
• The trunk is often a bastion for all kinds of groceries, sports bags, and luggage.
  — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 24 Mar. 2022
• That durable memorial, born of crisis and war, is a bastion of hope.
  — Forrest Brown, CNN, 30 May 2022
• Until recently, the city had long been a bastion of free speech.
  — New York Times, 16 Apr. 2021
• Now that the bastion may soon become (or return to) true free speech as Musk purports, is that a good thing?
  — Michael Polk, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2022
• In contrast, Iowa, has gone from a swing state that Obama carried twice to a Trump bastion.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 28 Mar. 2022
• Its founders envisaged it as a bastion of free thought.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2023
• Today, while the share of white Louisville residents has risen, the West End remains a bastion of Black culture in the city.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 15 Aug. 2024
• The few bastions of independent media that had held out through the last two decades were banned or closed one by one.
  — Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024
• Care is one of the pillars of the human, a last bastion of uniqueness in the age of intelligent machines.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
• That bastion of Democratic voters could be a boon in her statewide race. .
  — Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
• Chicago has always been a bastion of meat and potatoes.
  — Ari Bendersky, Robb Report, 30 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024