stronghold

How To Use stronghold In A Sentence

• 'It must be -- eight o'clock,' said the gasping voice -- '_eight o'clock_;' and the tone became a whisper, as though the idea thus half involuntarily revealed had been drawn jealously back into the strongholds of consciousness. Robert Elsmere
• The five of them forge an unlikely alliance, and head north through a vicious winter to find the last stronghold of the rebellion. Times, Sunday Times
• World War I saw the evolution of a new fortification setup combining field strongholds with fortresses.
• In the UK intensive agriculture with the use of chemical pesticides and herbicides to boost crop production has squeezed wildlife out of many former strongholds.
• It became the stronghold of the armed insurgency. Times, Sunday Times
• Their strongholds lie in the cities in which many students, academics, civil servants and public employees live.
• The Dingle Peninsula has been highlighted as an international stronghold for an endangered Irish bird, the distinctive red-billed chough.
• Our troops are driving toward the enemy stronghold.
• Standing proudly on an isolated promontory, this 13th century stronghold once commanded the whole upper part of the Great Glen.
• For reformers all along the rhetorical spectrum, red-light districts were the strongholds of organized vice.