How to Use bulwark in a Sentence

bulwark

1 of 2 noun
  • Like, is that a bulwark against it?
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Now, all that grows are small groups of tamarisk trees planted as a bulwark against the sands.
    — Alissa J. Rubin, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2023
  • The descent could have been a sullen bulwark of steel and cement.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Our word of the week was ‘bulwark,; which means strong protection.
    — Cameron Buford, al, 22 Oct. 2022
  • The very existence of a source on this scale is a bulwark against market panic.
    — Daniel Yergin, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Federal firefighting crews are the main bulwark at the largest of fires.
    — Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 July 2023
  • Similarly, the pool on the main deck sits flush with a glass bulwark to ensure a clear view of the ocean.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 7 Feb. 2024
  • So, in many ways, the structure of the church provides a bulwark against celebrity culture.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The bulwarks in the stern were cut down to main deck level, and the deck widened out to provide extra fishing space.
    — Eric Duvall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Wallstedt has been a bulwark all series.
    — CBS News, 26 Apr. 2026
  • It is seen by many officials as a loyal partner and part of a bulwark against Iran.
    — Gordon Lubold, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2022
  • All three decks are fitted with glass bulwarks that create a more seamless connection to the sea.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Bevan also eschewed straight lines in favor of contoured bulwarks that run the length of the yacht.
    — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 23 June 2023
  • Even as streaming has eroded the ranks of linear viewers in primetime, sports has built new bulwarks.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Highlights include a lifting beach platform with fold-down bulwarks and a plush foredeck lounge with a spa pool.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The low bulwarks and lateral walkways continue a sense of space.
    — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 24 Nov. 2023
  • It’s been heartening to watch states step up and become a bulwark against federal overreach.
    — Mary Ellen Klas, Twin Cities, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Part of this is simple common-sense safety, a bulwark against the toxic fandoms that have come to plague life online and off.
    — Matt Alt, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • At least some of the remainder, Jaffe says, is meant to be a bulwark against whatever the next calamity may be.
    — Brett Martin, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Poland is rapidly establishing itself as the West’s bulwark in the east.
    — Nr Editors, National Review, 15 Dec. 2023
  • To the aft, there is a large hydraulic platform and two fold-out bulwark terraces that can be lowered to create a vast walkaround beach club.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Men were sinful, and the goodness of women was the essential bulwark against the corruption of the world.
    — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 16 July 2022
  • That has helped as a bulwark against a recession, but also means the Fed may have to remain aggressive.
    — Yuri Kageyama, ajc, 24 Nov. 2022
  • Back on the swim platform, the side bulwarks fold outwards to create a larger exterior space.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The bulwark of podcasting, however, is its niche features.
    — Frank Racioppi, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Kruse claimed that Presley sought help developing her name and likeness rights as a bulwark against mounting debt.
    — Ryan Coleman Published, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • And so the bulwark imagined by Blinken and his French counterparts appears to have collapsed.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
  • The $30 billion bet on First Republic is seen as a bulwark against future bank runs.
    — Ken Sweet, ajc, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The war helped instill in him the notion of the Catholic Church as a bulwark against evil that would prevail with God’s help.
    — Henry Chudeputy News Editor, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2022
  • With the Brooklyn Bridge acting as a bulwark, this slice of New York was tucked away from the rest of the city.
    — Nicole Rudick, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023

bulwark

2 of 2 verb
  • Iconic businesses would be boarded up, as if bulwarked against some invading army.
    — James Ross Gardner, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2020
  • Topics include safeguarding city dwellers from extreme heat and bulwarking coastal towns against rising seas.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
  • This makes Iraq a weak but vital ally and bulwark against Iranian influence.
    — Michael Wahid Hanna, Foreign Affairs, 14 Feb. 2019
  • The company is hoping to bulwark itself in an uncertain economy.
    — Lucinda Shen, Fortune, 4 May 2020
  • What a MipTV swan song, bulwarked by Canneseries, can deliver, is another question.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The Lost Cause was fortified by presidential power and bulwarked for a century by Jim Crow.
    — Horace D. Ballard, Artforum, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The goal is to bulwark oil and gas against ambitious climate change policies by claiming the moral high ground — even as those fuels kindle a global crisis that disproportionately harms people who aren’t white.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2020
  • That prompted senior sales agents to suggest that the traditional sales model, bulwarked on the strength of ancillary sales to TV in Europe, haS now broken.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 18 Nov. 2023
  • Even Einstein, the prototypical loner, was bulwarked by a vast correspondence of arguing and discussion.
    — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2016
  • But so is lasting peace, bulwarked by the safeguarding of human rights — particularly for Afghan women — and the prevention of Afghanistan again becoming a haven for terrorism.
    — Chicago Tribune, Twin Cities, 8 Sep. 2019
  • In 2025 Trump declared a National Energy Emergency aimed at bulwarking the coal industry.
    — Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 4 June 2026
  • Providing one of the emotional high points at Locarno’s Spanish Previews, the production has been bulwarked recently by a pre-sale to national pubcaster RTVE and an ICAA Spanish film agency grant.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 25 Nov. 2025

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