How to Use stronghold in a Sentence

stronghold

noun

• The rebels retreated to their mountain stronghold.
• The area is a Republican stronghold.
• Putin ordered his troops not to storm the stronghold but to seal it off.
  — David Keyton and Yesica Fisch, ajc, 22 Apr. 2022
• In the east, the chart shows the remnants of the Crusader strongholds and the final throes of the Byzantine Empire.
  — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023
• The region was a stronghold for Trump in the 2016 primary.
  — Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 23 Feb. 2024
• The west of France, once a stronghold of the Socialist Party, went to Macron.
  — Elisabeth Zerofsky, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
• Newcastle was a Labour stronghold, as was the rest of the northeast.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
• The two escape and join a group of people on their way to a larger stronghold.
  — Theara Coleman, The Week, 22 Mar. 2023
• The ranch is a stronghold; more than once its defense is likened to warfare.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2023
• Putin ordered troops Thursday not to storm the stronghold but to seal it off.
  — Editors, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2022
• At the time, some of the Afghan war’s fiercest fighting took place in the Taliban stronghold where Reed’s unit deployed.
  — Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2023
• The rest of the Top 5 remains a Carpenter stronghold as well.
  — Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 17 Sep. 2024
• The poll was a head turner as the state had been considered a safe Trump stronghold.
  — James Powel, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024
• This creek is one of the country’s last hellbender strongholds.
  — Benji Jones, Vox, 18 June 2024
• The district used to be a GOP stronghold, covering the rural southern half of the state.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2022
• More than 250 people were taken hostage and moved to Hamas’ Gaza stronghold.
  — Bianna Golodryga, CNN, 7 Apr. 2024
• Troops move into the north of the territory with the aim of capturing the Hamas stronghold of Gaza City.
  — The Week Uk, theweek, 15 Jan. 2024
• Many of the explosions rocked the southern suburbs of Beirut, the main Hezbollah stronghold.
  — Emily Feng, NPR, 18 Sep. 2024
• The monastery is a stronghold of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which was then loyal to Moscow.
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
• The images emerged just hours after Putin ordered his troops to blockade rather than storm the last Ukrainian stronghold in the city.
  — NBC News, 22 Apr. 2022
• So far, the Israeli military has advanced to the outskirts of Gaza City but not entered the Hamas stronghold.
  — Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2023
• In rural areas, a GOP stronghold, Biden picks up 35% from women, vs. 25% from men.
  — Gary Langer, ABC News, 5 May 2024
• Humpback chub, by contrast, have their stronghold deep in the Grand Canyon, some 75 miles downriver from the dam, where bass haven’t shown up—at least not yet.
  — WIRED, 4 Nov. 2023
• In Texas, a historic stronghold for United Methodists, more than 40 percent of churches have left.
  — Ruth Graham, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2023
• In the coming days, Biden will likely press to forestall plans for a direct assault on Rafah, a city in Gaza that serves as Hamas’s last stronghold.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2024
• Aleppo was also the main rebel stronghold until Assad took it over in 2016.
  — Lauren Kent, CNN, 30 Nov. 2024
• The debate is playing out on Fox News, which was a stronghold of Trump support during his years in office.
  — Liz Goodwin, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Nov. 2022
• This medieval castle once served as a defensive stronghold for the city of Oslo and it is rumored to be the most haunted place in all of Norway.
  — Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 13 Aug. 2023
• In May, hundreds of Ukrainian fighters who had defended the last stronghold in the city, the Azovstal steel plant, surrendered.
  — Simon Shuster, Time, 26 Sep. 2022
• Now a state park and historic landmark, for the past several decades the fort has served as a stronghold of another kind — for jazz music.
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024