How to Use bastion in a Sentence

bastion

noun
  • And our backstop—for a lot of us, sort of last bastion—was work.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2026
  • In that world, he’s been written off as old, washed, and a bastion of a game that’s passed him by.
    — Sam Blum, New York Times, 15 May 2026
  • Bill felt the bleachers were the last bastion of the common man and woman.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 27 Sep. 2022
  • One is as a bastion of often niche auteur film sales business.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 15 Aug. 2025
  • But his policies are a tougher sell even in this bastion of granola leftism.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2019
  • The area has long been a bastion of resistance in Afghanistan.
    — Saphora Smith, NBC News, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Until recently, the city had long been a bastion of free speech.
    — New York Times, 16 Apr. 2021
  • And, look, the board is not known as a bastion of liberalism.
    — John Baer, Philly.com, 29 June 2018
  • That durable memorial, born of crisis and war, is a bastion of hope.
    — Forrest Brown, CNN, 30 May 2022
  • The trunk is often a bastion for all kinds of groceries, sports bags, and luggage.
    — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 24 Mar. 2022
  • And that’s supposed to be part of the core bastion of freedom and democracy.
    — Karl Vick, Time, 13 June 2019
  • The Supreme Court will remain a bastion of right-wing policies.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2025
  • While auctions may be thought to be bastions of red wine, whites do surprisingly well on the block.
    — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Nirvana and Pearl Jam, two bastions of the grunge sound, are enshrined.
    — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, 12 Aug. 2019
  • To be clear, these all-male bastions are outliers, with the trend going in the right direction.
    — Claire Zillman, Fortune, 22 May 2018
  • Over time, the platform became a bastion of the right-wing internet.
    — Kat Tenbarge, NBC News, 30 Nov. 2024
  • The few bastions of independent media that had held out through the last two decades were banned or closed one by one.
    — Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024
  • The coldwater rivers and streams above the dam are thought to offer a bastion for the fish as the climate turns warmer.
    — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The poor were thought to be the regime’s last bastion of power, tied to theocracy by piety and the welfare state.
    — Reuel Marc Gerecht and, WSJ, 11 June 2018
  • City types of a certain age have been dismayed at the loss of one of the Square Mile’s bastions.
    — Ian King, CNBC, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Now that the bastion may soon become (or return to) true free speech as Musk purports, is that a good thing?
    — Michael Polk, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2022
  • For years, Hong Kong has been a bastion of peace for religious people.
    — Haley Victory Smith, Washington Examiner, 6 July 2020
  • But the restaurant bastion of our summertime dreams remain.
    — Kat Robinson River Valley Eats, Arkansas Online, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Once the bastion of the privileged few, the campus soon came to be seen as a way station along the road to the middle class.
    — New York Times, 13 May 2022
  • Guadalajara — the land of tequila and mariachi — long has been a bastion of Catholicism.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 June 2019
  • The bastion, the fortifications, the views all shape the mood for diners.
    — Liza B. Zimmerman, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Climb the 900-odd steps (or cop out in a car) for a walk through its eight baroque bastions and some breathtaking views.
    — Helen Brown, TheWeek, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The city was known as a bastion of some of the earliest and fiercest resistance against the Assad regime.
    — Jawad Rizkallah, NPR, 5 Mar. 2025
  • The ultimate bastion for Russian submarines is in the far north, under the pack ice.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2021
  • But who will be the final holdout, the last bastion of the DIY gearbox?
    — Steven Ewing, Ars Technica, 13 Feb. 2023

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