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
  • Once the bastion of the privileged few, the campus soon came to be seen as a way station along the road to the middle class.
    New York Times, 13 May 2022
  • That durable memorial, born of crisis and war, is a bastion of hope.
    Forrest Brown, CNN, 30 May 2022
  • Now that the bastion may soon become (or return to) true free speech as Musk purports, is that a good thing?
    Michael Polk, Rolling Stone, 11 May 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
  • At the same time, in urban areas, a Democratic bastion, Trump wins 40% of men, vs. 30% of women.
    Gary Langer, ABC News, 5 May 2024
  • 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
  • It’s been almost 30 years since the Atlanta Games, and in that time Strug’s vault has been held up as the bastion of sporting glory and the epitome of the Olympic spirit.
    Christine Yu, SELF, 17 July 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
  • In the eyes of the rest of the country, Massachusetts is a bastion of progressive politics.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2022
  • 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
  • This happens as sports as a whole, which has long been the last bastion of cable TV, is transitioning to streaming.
    Janko Roettgers, The Verge, 22 June 2024
  • 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
  • And Sweden, a longtime bastion of neutrality, joined the alliance in March.
    Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2024
  • In Miami, a bastion of anti-Maduro exiles, a giant Venezuelan flag was draped between concrete pillars of an overpass.
    Patricia Laya and Andreina Itriago Acosta / Bloomberg, TIME, 29 July 2024

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