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fort

(= garrison) a fortified military post where troops are stationed (= fortress) a fortified defensive structure station (troops) in a fort gather in, or as if in, a fort, as for protection or defense (= fortify) enclose by or as if by a fortification

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The Qutub Minar and Red Fort are in Delhi.
They seized him and took him to Fort Monroe, Virginia.
Food supplies at the fort were very low.
Fort Moultrie had fewer than seventy soldiers.
Toronto used to be called Fort York.
Mary is hiding inside her blanket fort.
Tom and Mary built a snow fort in the backyard.
It's a fort built to defend the town from invasion.
The enemy occupied the fort.
Roger Miller was born on January 2, 1936 in the western city of Fort Worth, Texas.
They captured an American fort in northern Michigan.
He ordered them back to the fort.
The French and Indians won the Battle of Fort Duquesne.
Shell after shell smashed into the fort.
The old fort is at the top of the hill.
The soldiers were quartered in an old house near the fort.
Tom and his friends built a snow fort.

Movie subtitles

I was at the pharmacy holding the fort so my staff could get to enjoy it.
Holed up in that steel fort of his.
That high hill yonder where Engineer Poelzig now lives, was the site of Fort Marmorus.
This place was built on the ruins of that same Fort Marmorus that our unfortunate friend, the driver, described so vividly.
That new bank in San Angelo is shipping a Iot of gold to Fort Worth.
FORT DOUAUMONT TAKEN!
All right. I'll hold the fort.
They're all around Fort Pitt.
All provisions delivered to the fort are to be in prime condition.
You'll not take the lass to Fort Loudoun without a warrant.
If Fort Loudoun becomes a warehouse for illegal goods, its commandant is done for.
Now it isn't beholden for men out on bail to be appearing before a fort making demands. If you think it'll be hurting you, then I'll stay.
They're all about the fort, sir, close to 300 of them, armed. -Shut and bolt the gates.
In the name of public safety, we want permission to inspect the trader's goods stored in your fort.
I'm holding down the fort by myself.
You're a-going to prove how good you are, before you leave the fort. And if I don't? Well, if you don't.
Thorpe, you do your job before you leave the fort.
They all went back to the fort.
Garrett Fort, who had worked on the scripts for both Dracula and Frankenstein, started the parade with a screenplay dated April 9, 1932.
The early scripts were quite faithful to Wylie's novel, except that Garrett Fort modified the invisible cholera to invisible rats carrying bubonic plague.
John I Balderston, who had worked on the play versions of Dracula and Frankenstein, as well as the screenplay of Universal's The Mummy, wrote several drafts of the script based on Garrett Fort's adaptation of The Murderer Invisible.
I'm sending you to Fort Rannu.
He's at Fort Rannu.
I mean that Fort Rannu is no more.
Stand by helm and keep her headed two points to larboard of the fort.
There's 2,000 or 3,000 Sioux Indians cayoodlin' around Fort Piney with war paint on.
You better get that word through to the Indians, because they've just wiped out half the garrison at Fort Piney.
You hold the fort, Wash.
After we've fired on the Yankee rascals at Fort Sumter, we've got to fight.
It will proceed from the Brooklyn Navy Yard at a speed of four knots to a point in the Narrows opposite Fort Hamilton.
I was supposed to fly him down to Fort Churchill.
How long have you been in Fort de France?
You want to get down that basement at Fort Knox.
When it gets printed, they're gonna fire on Gettysburg again. -It was Fort Sumter they fired on.
At each spot with the passing arrows. they plan a fort just to be held by a handful of soldiers.
Transferred over from Fort Shafter.
Prewitt. Transfer from Fort Shafter.
Not around here, but when I soldieredat Fort Bliss, I heard plenty about this lady.
She took up with a lot of menback at Fort Bliss.
What about when you and Holmeswere back at Fort Bliss?
If you are late back to the fort, you might not be promoted.

News and current affairs

FORT LAUDERDALE - At the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos last month, leading participants called for a rapid shift to cleaner energy to tackle climate change.
At the last Organization of American States assembly in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the United States delegation took a good idea from others and, by its support, essentially sank it.
Though he continued the tradition of addressing the country from the ramparts of Delhi's historic Red Fort, the speech broke with convention.
Just as the strong franc, the so-called franc fort of the 1990s, did not imply an economically strong France, a strong euro should not be equated with an powerfully growing Europe.
It can hold the fort because it maintains one of the world's strictest regimes of exchange and capital controls.
Hundreds of African-Americans live year round in Ghana today, some within a short walk of Cape Coast Castle, the slaving fort that shipped human cargo until Britain halted the trade in 1807.

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