How to Use stronghold in a Sentence

stronghold

noun

• The rebels retreated to their mountain stronghold.
• The area is a Republican stronghold.
• In the east, the chart shows the remnants of the Crusader strongholds and the final throes of the Byzantine Empire.
  — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023
• The region was a stronghold for Trump in the 2016 primary.
  — Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 23 Feb. 2024
• The west of France, once a stronghold of the Socialist Party, went to Macron.
  — Elisabeth Zerofsky, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
• Newcastle was a Labour stronghold, as was the rest of the northeast.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
• The two escape and join a group of people on their way to a larger stronghold.
  — Theara Coleman, The Week, 22 Mar. 2023
• The ranch is a stronghold; more than once its defense is likened to warfare.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2023
• At the time, some of the Afghan war’s fiercest fighting took place in the Taliban stronghold where Reed’s unit deployed.
  — Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2023
• Troops move into the north of the territory with the aim of capturing the Hamas stronghold of Gaza City.
  — The Week Uk, theweek, 15 Jan. 2024
• So far, the Israeli military has advanced to the outskirts of Gaza City but not entered the Hamas stronghold.
  — Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2023
• Humpback chub, by contrast, have their stronghold deep in the Grand Canyon, some 75 miles downriver from the dam, where bass haven’t shown up—at least not yet.
  — WIRED, 4 Nov. 2023
• In Texas, a historic stronghold for United Methodists, more than 40 percent of churches have left.
  — Ruth Graham, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2023
• The debate is playing out on Fox News, which was a stronghold of Trump support during his years in office.
  — Liz Goodwin, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Nov. 2022
• This medieval castle once served as a defensive stronghold for the city of Oslo and it is rumored to be the most haunted place in all of Norway.
  — Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 13 Aug. 2023
• Now a state park and historic landmark, for the past several decades the fort has served as a stronghold of another kind — for jazz music.
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023
• The mission for the Ukrainian unit was to take a single house, in a village that is only a speck on the map but was serving as a stronghold for Russian soldiers.
  — Marc Santora Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2023
• The largest city in southern Gaza is still thought to be a Hamas stronghold where militant leader Yahya Sinwar is or was hiding out.
  — CBS News, 28 Jan. 2024
• Russia’s strongholds in the east and south have been densely mined with antitank and antipersonnel mines and trip wires in areas from three to 10 miles deep.
  — Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
• Southern and Eastern Africa are the strongholds of the current cheetah population.
  — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 20 Oct. 2023
• In the wake of those allegations, though, a stronghold of his former athletes have come to Farden’s defense.
  — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Sep. 2023
• Michigan is one of the longtime Democratic strongholds that flipped to Trump in 2016, handling him the presidency before Biden won it back.
  — Tribune News Service, Orange County Register, 27 Feb. 2024
• Areas between 3 and 10 miles deep in front of the Russians’ main strongholds have been densely mined with antitank and antipersonnel mines and trip wires.
  — Isabelle Khurshudyan and Kamila Hrabchuk, Anchorage Daily News, 16 July 2023
• Years of fighting has turned the town into a heavily fortified stronghold, with entrenchments built up over the past eight years.
  — Tim Lister, CNN, 19 Feb. 2024
• But Republican groups argued the money was largely spent in Democratic strongholds and tilted the results of the race.
  — Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
• Strength training is gaining a stronghold in the fitness industry.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 25 July 2023
• Those strongholds are facing the threat of destruction from weed invasion and a warmer, drier climate that increases the risk of wildfires — such as the 2020 Lake Pukaki fire.
  — Rina Diane Caballar, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2023
• Protasiewicz won 68% of the vote in Dane, the second-most populous county, which has been a crucial and growing Democratic stronghold.
  — Hope Karnopp, NBC News, 23 Feb. 2023
• Most recently, Russian troops have been closing in on the city of Avdiivka, a Ukrainian stronghold in the Donetsk region.
  — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• But the once-reliable GOP stronghold has become more purple, leading to some of the most competitive races in the election cycle.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024