How to Use stronghold in a Sentence

stronghold

noun

• The rebels retreated to their mountain stronghold.
• The area is a Republican stronghold.
• Putin ordered his troops not to storm the stronghold but to seal it off.
  — David Keyton and Yesica Fisch, ajc, 22 Apr. 2022
• Idlib province emerged as a rebel stronghold early in the war.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2021
• The ranch is a stronghold; more than once its defense is likened to warfare.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2023
• Louisville continues to flex its stronghold on the west coast.
  — Cameron Teague Robinson, The Courier-Journal, 31 Jan. 2022
• Well, at least the Boston stronghold was.
  — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Apr. 2026
• This creek is one of the country’s last hellbender strongholds.
  — Benji Jones, Vox, 18 June 2024
• Even if the White House is a stronghold, it is not meant to look like one.
  — Neil Flanagan, The Atlantic, 2 May 2026
• The two escape and join a group of people on their way to a larger stronghold.
  — Theara Coleman, The Week, 22 Mar. 2023
• Idlib Province emerged as a rebel stronghold early in the war.
  — New York Times, 15 May 2021
• Putin ordered troops Thursday not to storm the stronghold but to seal it off.
  — Editors, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2022
• Jenin is known as a militant stronghold, a place that has witnessed little to no peace.
  — Britt Clennett, ABC News, 12 Feb. 2025
• The poll was a head turner as the state had been considered a safe Trump stronghold.
  — James Powel, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024
• The protests even drew thousands of people in some GOP strongholds.
  — David Cortright, The Conversation, 26 Mar. 2026
• Newcastle was a Labour stronghold, as was the rest of the northeast.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
• Democrats in the loyally blue state are looking to lockdown a stronghold.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 18 Mar. 2026
• The town lies just a few miles north of the city of Donetsk, the separatists’ main stronghold.
  — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2021
• Israel says the city, Gaza’s largest, remains a Hamas stronghold.
  — Caitlin Danaher, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2025
• The Druze have a long history of taking up arms from their mountain stronghold.
  — Jane Arraf, NPR, 9 Apr. 2025
• Israel sees Gaza City as a major stronghold of Hamas.
  — Brittney Melton, NPR, 21 Aug. 2025
• Residents in Sanaa said the strikes hit a building in a Houthi stronghold.
  — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2025
• The garrison town sits about nine miles from the capital and is the former stronghold of the junta.
  — NBC News, 25 May 2021
• The rest of the Top 5 remains a Carpenter stronghold as well.
  — Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 17 Sep. 2024
• The Taliban lose its last major stronghold as the city of Kandahar falls.
  — CNN, 15 Aug. 2021
• The Lone Star State may be known as an oil stronghold, but its future is renewable.
  — Mark Olalde, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2020
• More than 250 people were taken hostage and moved to Hamas’ Gaza stronghold.
  — Bianna Golodryga, CNN, 7 Apr. 2024
• Israel says Gaza City is still a Hamas stronghold, with a network of tunnels.
  — Samy Magdy, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2025
• That response has gone well beyond the Shia strongholds and has displaced one million people who might never be able to go home.
  — Alvaro Vargas Llosa, Oc Register, 26 Mar. 2026
• North of Kalay in the Chin stronghold of Tamu, four soldiers were killed by civilians over the weekend.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021