How to Use fortress in a Sentence

fortress

noun
  • For now, the fortress in Pokrovsk holds.
    — David Kirichenko, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Two months ago, most Democrats were locked in a fortress of gloom.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Now reach over the fortress walls, hold the flame to the wick, and light that wick.
    — Kerry Elson, The New Yorker, 2 May 2020
  • For decades, bank branches were built to have a fortress-like look and feel.
    — Paul Gores, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • Cooking lessons and wine tastings are held in the old fortress kitchen.
    — Ann Lien, House Beautiful, 20 June 2019
  • But, of course, what counts most is what’s inside each fortress of solitude.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2021
  • For the last three seasons, the Spectrum has been a fortress.
    — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Mar. 2021
  • The healthcare industry is like a fortress in more ways than one.
    — Alexander Puutio, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
  • The three soon started assembling a group to search for the fortress.
    — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 21 July 2023
  • Walk in around the massive fortress with its cannons and tunnels.
    — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Once again, no criminal has tried to enter my fortress.
    — Meghana Indurti, New Yorker, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Even though the entire herd appears to be on its feet, one buck is still holed up in his fortress.
    — Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Walk in around the massive fortress with its cannons and tunnels.
    — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Here is how the fortress goes together, in the order a founder should build it.
    — Kyle Westaway, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • The floating fortress is a 45-minute boat ride from the nearest town.
    — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 23 Feb. 2022
  • India have spent the last three weeks in Dubai and made the venue into a fortress.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
  • The old fortress model, with its walls, moats and watchtowers, is dead.
    — Maman Ibrahim, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • What looked like a fortress of brands turned out to be a structure too bloated to compete.
    — Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • But behind the scenes, this city-within-a-city is designed like a fortress.
    — Peter Grant, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2019
  • 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
  • The over-all effect was of a desert palace, equal parts fortress and oasis, sturdy and serene.
    — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • Friedman put Chicago on the map as a fortress of the free market.
    — Krithika Varagur, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2024
  • In our local museum, a model of the fortress had pride of place.
    — Haiane Avakian, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2023
  • But many Americans have come to treat their home as a private fortress.
    — Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 31 May 2026
  • Turn Old Trafford into a fortress again.
    — The Athletic Uk Staff, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Meanwhile, the road appears to connect a fortress gate to the center of the site.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2025
  • Rezvani just built you a fortress of a pickup truck ready to take on the apocalypse.
    — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 30 May 2026
  • The point is not to turn the home into a fortress but to remove single points of failure.
    — Neal K. Shah, Boston Herald, 17 Mar. 2026

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