FORTRESS in a Sentence
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56 example sentences for FORTRESS, such as:
1. The two friends walked out on the fortress.
2. Greek warriors took the fortress with little effort.
3. The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress.
4. He turned towards the fortress, and looked at both sea and land.
5. It was profusely strewed with the plunder of that unlucky fortress.
2. Greek warriors took the fortress with little effort.
3. The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress.
4. He turned towards the fortress, and looked at both sea and land.
5. It was profusely strewed with the plunder of that unlucky fortress.
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Meanings and Examples of FORTRESS
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fortress
n. a fortified defensive structure
Classic Sentence: (51 in 4 pages)
1 The youth wandered on, and after some time came to a fortress where he begged for a night's lodging.
2 This gloomy fortress, which has for more than three hundred years furnished food for so many wild legends, seemed to Dantes like a scaffold to a malefactor.
3 At the expiration of a year the governor was transferred; he had obtained charge of the fortress at Ham.
4 He turned towards the fortress, and looked at both sea and land.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
Context Highlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
5 In a few hours my strength will be utterly exhausted; besides, perhaps I have not been missed at the fortress.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
Context Highlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
6 de Villefort; but, like the feudal barons who rebelled against their sovereign, he dwelt in an impregnable fortress.
7 The two friends walked out on the fortress.
8 There was a corporeal humility in looking up at him; and a white man standing before him seemed a white flag come to beg truce of a fortress.
9 Against this assault, the besieged could only oppose the imperfect and hasty preparations of a fortress in the wilderness.
10 While there is hope of succor, this fortress will I defend, though it be to be done with pebbles gathered on the lake shore.
11 As soon as the usual ceremonials of a military departure were observed, the veteran and his more youthful companion left the fortress, attended by the escort.
12 The fortress was a smoldering ruin; charred rafters, fragments of exploded artillery, and rent mason-work covering its earthen mounds in confused disorder.
13 It was profusely strewed with the plunder of that unlucky fortress.
14 Lord of Thymbra, give us an enduring dwelling-place; grant a house and family to thy weary servants, and a city to abide: keep Troy's second fortress, the remnant left of the Grecians and merciless Achilles.
15 But good Aeneas seeks the fortress where Apollo sits high enthroned, and the lone mystery of the awful Sibyl's cavern depth, over whose mind and soul the prophetic Delian breathes high inspiration and reveals futurity.
Example Sentence:
1 The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress.
2 Greek warriors took the fortress with little effort.
3 This combined novel and treatise traces the history of an imaginary French fortress from the 4th Century B.C. through the Napoleonic Wars.
4 In July, 1792, the united armies of Prussia and Austria commenced their march from the German fortresses upon the Rhine into France.
5 The French constructed a series of fortresses from Dunkirk on the Channel coast to Douai.