How to Use strongpoint in a Sentence

strongpoint

noun
  • The game was a battle of midfielders, a strongpoint for both teams.
    — Kat Cornetta, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Now, at last, the strongpoint was stormed, and all inside were slaughtered or captured.
    — Stephen Brumwell, WSJ, 8 Jan. 2023
  • Now, is the offensive line a strongpoint or is the defensive line a weakness?
    — Dallas News, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Kyiv could lose several thousand troops and a key strongpoint in Donbas.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 20 May 2022
  • Hamas could position their fighters in strongpoints, heavy buildings made of concrete and steel.
    — Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Forward elements had run into a German strongpoint and mines on the road.
    — Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2019
  • Robust concrete structures, such as banks or government buildings, may be used as a strongpoint from which to defend.
    — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022
  • His dribbling and passing have been highlighted as being the midfielder's strongpoints.
    — SI.com, 16 June 2019
  • The Canadian contingent in Afghanistan put its tanks to good use, rolling through ambushes to blast Taliban strongpoints.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 6 May 2023
  • Opposition As previously mentioned, neither side can claim that their defences are their strongpoints.
    — SI.com, 6 Sep. 2017
  • And there are obvious ways the infantry-heavy national guard brigades could deploy the tanks—especially in close fights with Russian remnants holding out in urban strongpoints.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • Regardless of if Max Duggan or Chandler Morris is the starting quarterback, the position is a strongpoint.
    — Dallas News, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Challenger 2s would follow close behind, blasting Russian vehicles and strongpoints with their 120-millimeter guns while sticking to lanes the mineclearers have rendered safe.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 15 July 2023
  • From changes in campaign finance law to changes in the congressional calendar, accountability is not a particular strongpoint in American government these days.
    — Jennifer Victor, Vox, 30 Oct. 2018
  • One focus of Russian attacks has been the town of Lyman in Donetsk, at the edge of what’s known as Ukraine’s fortress belt in the region, and a key strongpoint guarding the larger city of Sloviansk.
    — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 22 Mar. 2026
  • In February, Khartiia’s Lava regiment cleared a Russian strongpoint near Kupiansk using ground robots, kamikaze UGVs and strike drones without sending infantry into the objective.
    — David Kirichenko, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026

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