How to Use redoubt in a Sentence

redoubt

noun

• The refugees gathered in a hilly redoubt several miles outside the city.
• Daniels discovers a cavelike redoubt deep in the earth and claims it for his own.
  — Colin Asher, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2021
• Toward the end of April, the Azovstal plant became the last redoubt.
  — Vivian Salama, WSJ, 17 May 2022
• Bitcoin needs a safe redoubt, and along came El Salvador, ready to be just that.
  — Wired, 30 June 2021
• The insurgents, though weakened, were left secure in their redoubt.
  — Jake Maxwell Watts, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2017
• French soldiers were to take one redoubt, Americans led by Lt.
  — Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati.com, 3 July 2018
• In a chaotic city, Rakhlin’s class offered teen-agers a redoubt of discipline.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 29 May 2017
• There is little in nature that can invade this flexible redoubt.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
• The island redoubt of Corregidor, at the mouth of the bay, fell May 6.
  — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 25 May 2020
• So is the broader question of whether the street can shake off its image as a fusty redoubt of old-school haberdashery.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2020
• Walls and towers made of stone and rammed earth rose from strategic ridge lines, making a formidable redoubt.
  — Byandrew Lawler, science.org, 23 Oct. 2024
• In his basement redoubt, Bussard walks over to his wall of records to make another selection.
  — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 5 June 2022
• The last redoubt was the masterly Structure 27.
  — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
• The jihadists’ last redoubt is likely to be the city of Deir ez-Zor, in eastern Syria.
  — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
• The rocky cave doubles as an undersea redoubt, like those little castles made for a kid’s aquarium but here blown up to mammoth size.
  — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 24 May 2018
• In the shrinking rebel redoubt on the eastern side of the city, intense artillery shelling and airstrikes forced residents to cower in basements.
  — Anne Barnard, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2016
• Syrian and Russian forces are trying to crush the last redoubt of revolution there.
  — Mike Ives, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2020
• This vast and often hilly expanse along Turkey’s southern border has become the rebels’ final redoubt.
  — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 30 May 2017
• Fortunately, there is still one redoubt of the necktie in Manhattan.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 6 July 2024
• Herrero grew up in a family of brawny, oddball leftists in the right-wing redoubt of Toulon, on the Mediterranean coast.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
• On the search for the redoubt, archaeologists have found artifacts from 251 years ago.
  — Kailey Schuyler, FOXNews.com, 12 June 2026
• Now his officers are under siege from all sides, and the command center at the downtown Minneapolis precinct is their redoubt.
  — Isaac Stanley-Becker, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2026
• One by one, Robbins and his team peeled away from their redoubt behind the Interceptor and cleared the pickups and the Wagoneers.
  — Scott Eden, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2026
• Putin ordered a tight blockade of the steel plant, the Ukrainians’ final redoubt, which is a sprawling collection of above- and below-ground structures.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2022
• Contrast that with Europe, ostensibly a redoubt of strong climate policy.
  — Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 4 June 2026
• The collapse had been particularly swift in the priest’s own Brazil — the church’s strongest redoubt by measure of Catholic adherents.
  — Bishop Sand, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2024
• Elsewhere, this could only be a scene of sensory overload, but its eye-of-the-storm geography made the Bowl a kind of redoubt, cool and dark and almost hushed under the purple sky.
  — Michael Owen, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2025
• But there is also graffiti identifying the block as a redoubt of the Rolling 30s Bloods gang, which has operated in the area for decades.
  — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021
• Crews are wanting to learn more about the earthen fortification, known as the redoubt, which is essentially a dirt fort colonial soldiers built by hand overnight before fighting began.
  — Kailey Schuyler, FOXNews.com, 12 June 2026
• The Moors were kicked out of Granada, their last redoubt, in 1492, but their legacy of ebullient patterning persisted.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 9 Oct. 2021