bastions
- plural of bastion.
Example Sentences
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Bastions of downtown's underground spirit remain: Gronk's assistant, Luis Vasquez, holds regular openings and events in a 3-year-old pop-up art space in his building's Spring Street lobby called the Lobby Gallery.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2016
Bastions, palazzi, fortresses, squares and citadels are all being painstakingly restored.
From BBC • Nov. 28, 2015
Its Leeds base lends colour to an otherwise drab industrial estate, with a surplus tank beside a wall of Bastions which looks like something out of a conflict zone.
From The Guardian • Sep. 27, 2010
The next year he lost his job with the London Telegraph for criticizing Neville Chamberlain in his book, Fallen Bastions.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bastions, some of which are fifty feet square, are built upon the outside at distances of about one hundred feet.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 30, September, 1873 by Various
