How to Use bastion in a Sentence

bastion

noun

• To be fair, Yale has not been a bastion of free speech.
  — Lauren Noble, National Review, 14 Aug. 2022
• Bill felt the bleachers were the last bastion of the common man and woman.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 27 Sep. 2022
• But who will be the final holdout, the last bastion of the DIY gearbox?
  — Steven Ewing, Ars Technica, 13 Feb. 2023
• The coldwater rivers and streams above the dam are thought to offer a bastion for the fish as the climate turns warmer.
  — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 22 Sep. 2023
• That makes databases the last bastion of vendor lock-in.
  — Mike Waas, Forbes, 1 July 2022
• Its founders envisaged it as a bastion of free thought.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2023
• Care is one of the pillars of the human, a last bastion of uniqueness in the age of intelligent machines.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
• That bastion of Democratic voters could be a boon in her statewide race. .
  — Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
• Nilsen dragged a pen along the page to show what Russia considers its bastion and where its submarines could go to hide.
  — Emily Rauhala, Anchorage Daily News, 18 July 2023
• The last Ukrainian bastion in a key eastern province is now in Russian hands.
  — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 4 July 2022
• The iPhone represents Apple’s last bastion for the Lightning port.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 10 Oct. 2022
• The operation took place in the Jenin refugee camp — an area in the northern West Bank that has long been known as a bastion of militants.
  — Nasser Nasser and Josef Federman, Anchorage Daily News, 4 July 2023
• The great bastion of Jewface is, where else, Hollywood.
  — Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2023
• Because London is a second home to so many rich people from abroad, the city has long been a bastion of gaudy consumerism.
  — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• Harry was fortunate enough to be in the British bastion in Charleston when Yorktown fell.
  — Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 June 2023
• The Jenin area has a decadeslong history as a bastion of armed struggle against Israeli rule.
  — Isabel Kershner, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2023
• Grammy winner Megan Thee Stallion, a bastion of female bravado, agreed to play the part.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Oct. 2023
• The rivers and streams above Grand Coulee Dam offer some of the best remaining coldwater habitat for salmon, and could be a bastion for the fish amid climate change.
  — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 4 Aug. 2022
• Hacker group Anonymous said this month that Musk’s claim to have turned X into a bastion of free speech is not even accurate.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2024
• If the case stays in Fulton County, the jury will come from a bastion of Democratic politics where Trump was trounced in 2020.
  — Danny Hakim, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2023
• The sprawling steelworks was the last bastion of resistance as Russian forces took control of the port city of Mariupol.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 9 July 2023
• All to get them on a plane and deposit them on an island considered a liberal bastion.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Oct. 2022
• Jordan is a close Western ally that has long been seen as a bastion of stability in the volatile Middle East.
  — Omar Akour, ajc, 14 Sep. 2022
• It’s also known as a progressive bastion, and negative views of the police repel some would-be cops.
  — Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2024
• But the Fisher Center, nestled in a college long known as a bastion of the humanities, is making big plans.
  — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 5 July 2023
• An unorthodox bid to preserve one of the last bastions of country life in the D.C. area is dividing residents.
  — Jayne Orenstein, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2024
• In the November 2022 elections, Meretz, that party that is the bastion of liberal Israel failed to cross the threshold for the first time in its existence.
  — Time, 10 Jan. 2023
• Of course, California didn’t become a left-wing bastion overnight.
  — Nicole Russell, Washington Examiner, 28 Dec. 2023
• The question now is whether the billionaire Tesla CEO can grow the business while fulfilling his vow to transform it into a bastion of free speech.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2022
• Jenin has long been a bastion for armed struggle against Israel and was a major friction point in the last Palestinian uprising.
  — Nasser Nasser and Josef Federman, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024