How to Use fort in a Sentence

fort

noun

• They captured the fort after a long battle.
• However, these men forcibly brought other people to the fort.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Sep. 2020
• Young guests enjoy searching for fairies in the woods, building a fort and taking nature walks.
  — oregonlive, 28 Aug. 2020
• Trump has attended each night of the convention, and the president flew in to the fort for the speech in an unannounced surprise.
  — Dallas News, 27 Aug. 2020
• Optional: Make an epic couch fort with sheets and cushions in your living room for an impromptu sleepover vibe.
  — Marilyn La Jeunesse, Parents, 20 Nov. 2024
• The property is also home to an Iron Age fort called Dunskirloch.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Nov. 2024
• The fort had been converted into a huge military hospital with temporary buildings spread about on what are now lawns.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 9 Nov. 2024
• The fort surgeon vaccinated both soldiers and Dakota against smallpox just a few years later.
  — Stephen E. Osman, Star Tribune, 28 Aug. 2020
• Remember when cousin John was building a fort out of books in Grandma’s basement at Thanksgiving?
  — Ethan Hauser, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2020
• The sprawling 14th-century palace of Husuni Kubwa combined the roles of a fort, a castle, and a warehouse.
  — National Geographic, 3 Sep. 2020
• The resort-like outdoor amenities include a kitchen with a grill, refrigerator and ice maker, tiered patios, a pool with waterfalls and slide, a play fort and a zip line.
  — Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2020
• Build forts with it, cry into it, rest a head on it, hug it, put a gift for the Tooth Fairy under it, convert it into a kneepad or even deliver wedding bands on it.
  — Candace Oehler, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2024
• Prior discoveries at the fort, including a board game and a scrap of leather cut into the shape of a mouse, have helped reveal aspects of daily life under Roman rule.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Sep. 2020
• Those traits run in our national character… as that invading force learned on approach to this fort on September 1814.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 27 Aug. 2020
• Pence accepted the Republican nomination to seek a second term Wednesday in an outdoor space at the historic fort.
  — Jeff Barker, baltimoresun.com, 27 Aug. 2020
• Guys have come in, and he’s still been able to hold the fort.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2022
• The fort was on the west side near the West Branch of the Rocky River.
  — cleveland, 15 Jan. 2021
• And sometimes, you’re asked to hold the fort, in a sense.
  — Jim Alexander, Orange County Register, 15 Oct. 2024
• The boys set up a little fort on the floor and slept next to her.
  — Jami Svay As Told To Blake Bakkila, Good Housekeeping, 2 May 2019
• Piña held down the fort in the meantime, and more than ably at that.
  — Todd Rosiak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2018
• Building the fort that makes up the map’s B site was easy.
  — Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2021
• But now there are tents by the river and a s’mores bar and firepit in the main fort.
  — Joshua Berman, The Know, 29 June 2019
• The fort would have witnessed the heyday of the sailing barges.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 24 July 2023
• In the meantime, Chubb and Johnson will hold down the fort.
  — cleveland, 27 Oct. 2021
• Kids scaled the foam walls and built forts out of square cushions.
  — Diana Budds, Curbed, 18 July 2018
• So that’s kind of the onus on the starting pitcher to go out there and hold the fort.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 17 June 2023
• Emden held down the fort with 15 saves and even scored a goal from across the pool.
  — Paul Johnson, Naperville Sun, 18 May 2018
• The San Antonio site had been part of the west wall of the Alamo fort.
  — Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 1 June 2021
• When deciding where to build the fort, the group held a vote.
  — Amanda Bellows, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 June 2024
• If there was a raid, people would abandon the fields and head straight to the fort.
  — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024