bastille

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Recent Examples of bastille For his part, Bowie celebrated the election by joining forces with John Barleycorn and evicting the residents of the local bastille. Robert Kolarik, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Feb. 2018 In these wet, wooden bastilles in New York waters, more Americans died than in all the battles of the Revolutionary War combined. Benedict Cosgrove, Smithsonian, 13 Mar. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bastille
Noun
  • He is being held on $2 million bail, online jail records show.
    Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2025
  • He was eventually sentenced to six years in jail for defrauding investors.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Jones was charged with first-degree intentional homicide in 1996 and was in prison until 2021.
    Everett Eaton, jsonline.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The law mandates that second-degree persistent felony offenders be sentenced to a prison term within the penalty range for the next highest degree of felony.
    Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • At Parchman, the state’s troubled penitentiary, corrections workers were urging their colleagues to sign up.
    Kevin Collier, NBC news, 26 Aug. 2025
  • After his conviction, Gray was sent to Angola, one of the most violent penitentiaries in the country at the time.
    Richard A. Webster, ProPublica, 25 Aug. 2025

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“Bastille.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bastille. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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