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
They could be Europe's "Bastions of Peace," interposed between the antagonistic realms of Stalin and Hitler, and last week newsorgans in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Rumania were giving great play to this slogan, "Bastions of Peace."
From Time Magazine Archive
In fact, I thought the Bastions a very convenient place, since the girl did not think it prudent as yet to introduce that young man to her mother.
From Under Western Eyes by Conrad, Joseph
