How to Use fortress in a Sentence

fortress

noun

• The old city is dominated by low-lying, fortress-style homes made of mud brick.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2021
• His home is a traditional courtyard that turns into this fortress.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 6 Sep. 2021
• But then in June, one case of the delta variant breached the fortress walls and started an outbreak that could not be controlled.
  — NBC News, 12 Aug. 2021
• Some people trying to return home to these fortress countries are resigned to not traveling anytime soon.
  — Mike Cherney, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2021
• With an army of guards and the most high-tech security system money can buy, Abasolo’s home is a fortress.
  — Jamie Lang, Variety, 21 Sep. 2021
• After all, the vaccine isn't like building an impenetrable fortress around our house that gets broken through.
  — Megan Thomas, CNN, 12 Aug. 2021
• Griffin’s quick-twitch rim protection should have been the ideal complement to Yao’s fortress-like defense of the paint.
  — Rahat Huq, Chron, 9 Sep. 2021
• Perched on a mountain, this one-of-a-kind fortress is the most unique destination in the North Georgia Mountains.
  — Judy Garrison, Southern Living, 16 Oct. 2024
• The day students turned HKU into a fortress, professors braved the tense face off to negotiate with police.
  — Cnn Staff, CNN, 18 Sep. 2021
• Many streets are flooded from the heavy rainfall and some small towns outside of New Orleans’s flood-protection fortress were inundated.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2021
• The airport’s fortress architecture of blast walls and barbed wire, designed to deter car bombs and complex attacks, had funneled the crowd into a narrow choke point beside the canal.
  — New York Times, 27 Aug. 2021
• Its brick offices stand like a fortress amid the old-timey downtown of Hampton, many of whose storefronts, including the local newspaper office, are shuttered or empty.
  — Elijah Nouvelage For Cnn, CNN, 26 Sep. 2021
• Instead of a site of deprivation and punishment for unwanted women, Marie creates a virtual island, a fortress utopia.
  — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2021
• According to the British Museum, accounts written at the time describe soldiers and released hostages looting Maqdala’s fortress and church.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Sep. 2021
• But while the bandits might be gone, the fortress still has to fight the desert heat.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Sep. 2022
• The fortress of Bakhmut shows up on maps starting in 1701.
  — Haiane Avakian, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2023
• With all these thoughts fresh in their minds, the gang makes it to the fortress city of Fal Dara.
  — Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2021
• Two months ago, most Democrats were locked in a fortress of gloom.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2022
• The fortress erupts, and with it, the famous Mona Lisa that Miles had loaned from the Louvre.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 23 Dec. 2022
• Of course, in the series, Bill’s hideout is a fortress.
  — Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 29 Jan. 2023
• The size and shape of sand grains help decide the fate of a sculpted beach fortress.
  — Helen Czerski, WSJ, 10 June 2023
• The floating fortress is a 45-minute boat ride from the nearest town.
  — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 23 Feb. 2022
• This mighty fortress, lying at the heart of England, was one of the largest in the kingdom.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 June 2024
• The three soon started assembling a group to search for the fortress.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 21 July 2023
• Friedman put Chicago on the map as a fortress of the free market.
  — Krithika Varagur, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2024
• Fans can fight for Eternia in the Castle Grayskull fortress.
  — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 8 Aug. 2023
• The date also figures in the dramatic saga of the siege of the Masada fortress not far away, on the banks of the Dead Sea.
  — Matti Friedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Dec. 2022
• The fortress sits at one of the highest points of the area, offering panoramic views of the Medieval city.
  — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 28 Aug. 2022
• Kessler also argued that the Celis house was built like a fortress with a tall wall around it.
  — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 1 Mar. 2023
• He’s built himself an impressive fortress with a generator, sturdy gates, a greenhouse with plenty of food, and even a shed with hundreds of gallons of ethanol to fly his plane.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Nov 2024