How to Use bastion in a Sentence

bastion

noun

• 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
• The Supreme Court will remain a bastion of right-wing policies.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2025
• 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
• The city has been a Democratic bastion for decades, but that doesn’t mean the party can overlook it in the 2020 race.
  — WSJ, 9 Oct. 2020
• 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
• Over time, the platform became a bastion of the right-wing internet.
  — Kat Tenbarge, NBC News, 30 Nov. 2024
• 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
• Spanish in origin, the Chamorros rose to be a bastion of the establishment by the 1850s.
  — The Economist, 31 Mar. 2021
• The ultimate bastion for Russian submarines is in the far north, under the pack ice.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2021
• 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
• For years, Hong Kong has been a bastion of peace for religious people.
  — Haley Victory Smith, Washington Examiner, 6 July 2020
• 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
• 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
• That bastion of Democratic voters could be a boon in her statewide race. .
  — Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
• Perhaps halfway up to the crest which forms the ramparts of the Mule Shoe was a jutting bastion of orange-colored rock.
  — Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 27 Feb. 2025
• Chicago has always been a bastion of meat and potatoes.
  — Ari Bendersky, Robb Report, 30 Mar. 2022
• Nilsen dragged a pen along the page to show what Russia considers its bastion and where its submarines could go to hide.
  — Emily Rauhala, Anchorage Daily News, 18 July 2023
• President Trump and Elon Musk's plans for a wholesale reduction of the federal workforce have brought turmoil to a sector long seen as a bastion of stability.
  — Bill Chappell, NPR, 6 Mar. 2025
• Associated Press journalists saw a handful of tanks move Sunday into Jenin, long a bastion of armed struggle against Israel.
  — Majdi Mohammed and Tia Goldenberg, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2025