Example Sentences

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If we wish to restore the healthy exchange of ideas, we need to refortify the marketplace.

From Slate • Sep. 24, 2025

Not willing to tell her friends what's going on, throughout the night she sneaks off to her host's bathroom to refortify her toilet paper shield.

From Salon • Mar. 26, 2022

Like Valletta itself, this gem was built by the knights in the late 1500s as the island sought to refortify itself after the siege’s destruction.

From Washington Post • Aug. 24, 2017

Now, at the start of a new summer, they said they hoped the season would refortify them.

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2015

Through the fortunate influence exerted by one of these adopted sons of the wilderness was New France now able to refortify the strategic Niagara region, temporarily besting England in the contest for the supremacy here.

From The Niagara River by Hulbert, Archer Butler