Synonyms

1. bastioned

Sentence Examples

1. As it was, El Uchali took refuge at Modon, which is an island near Navarino, and landing forces fortified the mouth of the harbour and waited quietly until Don John retired.
2. The church had large wooden doors that could be fortified, and stone walls made it weatherproof.
3. The panorama passed before their eyes like a flash, save when the steam concealed it fitfully from the view the travellers could scarcely discern the fort of Chupenie, twenty miles south-westward from Benares, the ancient stronghold of the rajahs of Behar or Ghazipur and its famous rose-water factories or the tomb of Lord Cornwallis, rising on the left bank of the Ganges the fortified town of Buxar, or Patna, a large manufacturing and trading-place, where is held the principal opium market of India or Monghir, a more than European town, for it is as English as Manchester or Birmingham, with its iron foundries, edgetool factories, and high chimneys puffing clouds of black smoke heavenward.
4. The only survivors left had taken shelter in homes, some families were lucky to survive, and others fortified their front doors.
5. I fortified the many painful holes with determination and sheer will.
6. I was not sleepy, as the long sleep yesterday had fortified me but I could not help experiencing that chill which comes over one at the coming of the dawn, which is like, in its way, the turn of the tide.
7. For a few minutes, we ate and drank in silence, both of us obviously acknowledging that it was better to get fortified before we headed down to the river.
8. Burton was a small fortified Manor house, nestling in a lap of green land surrounded on three sides by forest and on the fourth by a stream.
9. Thus fortified, he curled up in a ball and promptly went to sleep in a patch of sunlight slipping through the window of the second bedroom, the one I planned to turn into an office.
10. I would entertain myself in forming and directing the minds of hopeful young men, by convincing them from my own remembrance, experience, and observation, fortified by numerous examples, of the usefulness of virtue in public and private life.