Example Sentences

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For years he had been battering down the scepticism that had bulwarked itself in the material.

From The Blind Spot by Hall, Austin

Her husband had died when the child was eight years old, and a year later her brother, who had bulwarked her against despair, had been killed in the terrible siege of Perugia.

From Roads from Rome by Allinson, Anne C. E. (Anne Crosby Emery)