How to Use citadel in a Sentence

citadel

noun
  • We visited a medieval citadel in Italy.
  • Perhaps most significantly, doubt was creeping into the citadel of religion.
    Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
  • For the best views, head up to the clifftop and visit the citadel that watches over the town.
    Ingrid K. Williams, Travel + Leisure, 6 Jan. 2024
  • And that’s the reason reason has yet to dent the citadel of MAGA, and never will.
    Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 22 Apr. 2024
  • The citadel remained the seat of Egypt’s government until the 1860s.
    Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 19 Mar. 2019
  • The ancient citadel rises 400 feet above the ivory town of Lindos.
    Nick Kontis, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Even so, the name has stuck through the site’s transition from citadel to showplace.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2020
  • On the far side of the citadel, a mysterious trench bisects a field of bedrock.
    New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
  • In the years that followed, Hayward Field would become a sports citadel, but not of the sport that launched it.
    oregonlive, 8 July 2022
  • It’s that citadel at the end of time where the first Kang (Jonathan Majors) version appears.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 30 July 2021
  • When the citadel reopened, the government capped the number of tourists at 2,244 per day.
    Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Does a four-year stint at a citadel of higher learning teach us to think, rather than just to get and spend?
    James Atlas, Town & Country, 10 July 2018
  • Its position in the citadel, perched high above the city below, means the views are dazzling.
    New York Times, 15 Dec. 2017
  • All over the world people saw that, at what people around the world would see as the citadel for democracy.
    NBC News, 21 Mar. 2021
  • No sources before 1912 refer to the citadel as Machu Picchu.
    Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The Incan citadel of Machu Picchu in Peru is known for its marvelous stonework.
    Sid Perkins, Science | AAAS, 22 Oct. 2019
  • As the prow of a five-film Disney blockbuster franchise, he will never be cast out of the citadel of extreme fame and wealth.
    Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
  • The lure is La Cité, a 10th-century citadel both fairy-tale and foreboding.
    Katherine Wheelock, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 June 2017
  • This may mean storming and occupying the citadel of law.
    Ryan D. Doerfler, The New Republic, 13 Oct. 2020
  • In good weather, crowds strolled its green parks, shopped in a suburban-style mall and hung out in a plaza at the foot of an ancient citadel.
    Jared Malsin, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Apart from the town’s skyline, the citadel, and the rocks behind, this town along the Meuse River is the birthplace of Adolphe Sax, the inventor of the saxophone.
    Keith Ladzinski, National Geographic, 28 July 2020
  • Mr Williams often finds citadels with doors that do not close; or crews with no training on what to do if attacked.
    The Economist, 29 June 2019
  • This is about the citadel of our democracy being attacked.
    ABC News, 23 May 2021
  • Totel’s name for this citadel of knowledge is Mutropolis.
    Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Our beloved Midwest citadels aren't exactly from the times of kings and queens, but someone put them there for a reason.
    Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 30 July 2023
  • The father and son duo took in the remains of the massive ancient citadel, with Edoardo sporting a hat in the sun while his son rocked green shorts and a striped shirt.
    Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Le Chalet is a weather beaten and isolated bistro in the shadow of the gigantic citadel, at the very end of the harbor.
    David Holahan, courant.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • There certainly was no gleaming citadel of a Target, as there is now.
    Michael Nagrant, RedEye Chicago, 6 Oct. 2017
  • An assault on the citadel of liberty, the Capitol itself.
    Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 4 Jan. 2022
  • But the University of Chicago’s image as the citadel of free speech is being tested again — this time over an encampment on the central quad, which protesters of Israel’s war in Gaza have refused to leave for more than a week.
    Jeremy W. Peters Jamie Kelter Davis, New York Times, 6 May 2024

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