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fortress English

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fortress

A fortress is a large fortified place usually with high security.

fortress

a fortified defensive structure

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Simple sentences

We are a fortress.
One thousand two hundred and fifty-six soldiers destroyed the fortress of Alamut.
Herod the Great built the Masada fortress and rebuilt the Temple.
We were looking at the ruins of the old fortress.
Gold can conquer any fortress.
The fortress fell into the hands of the enemy.
The fortress was in the enemy's hands.
The fortress being out of supplies, its protectors had to give up.
For many years, the abbey was turned into a fortress, happily joining in itself martial and religious architecture.
From the moment that the fortress ran out of supplies, its defenders had to surrender.

Movie subtitles

The entire fortress is about to explode, we need to clear the area!
The entire fortress is about to explode, we have to. uhm. ehm. take my socks!
Marcasse swore to punish with his own hands the chief culprit: the elusive Tristan de Mauprat who hid among the ruins of his ancient fortress.
Firs attack at the fortress warded off with dishonour!
Welcome to my poor fortress.
Fortress?
Mount Valerien fortress, under military arrest.
Spotlights are on Earle's fortress.
The beard became a sort of fortress.
On to the fortress!
Took it from a prisoner in the fortress.
We must go to the fortress at once.
Take him to the fortress.
They're taking the queen to the fortress.
The fire from the fortress is weakening!
No one can escape from this fortress.
Is this a castle or a prison, general? A fortress.
This fortress built by nature for herself, this blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
The place is a fortress and guarded by a savage dog.
Her great feudal fortress castles, born in that uneasy time. stand now as stately monuments. to how unyielding were the enmities that caused their building.
Each man his own fortress in his great armor. so weighed down he can't move.
It will be identified by a fortress on a hill overlooking a large bay.
A fortress and a wind before morning.
There's still 10 shillings riding on that fortress.
Yes. Welcome to my poor fortress.
My uncle has just been caught and taken to the fortress to be tortured!
And on to the fortress.
Shall we go up to the fortress?
We'll go up to the fortress which. which belongs to us now.
On the other side of the narrow sound there used to be a fortress, which controlled entry together with Kronborg.
The fortress is surrounded by a ring wall, which has been preserved inside the walls of Kronborg.
Look at this fortress of a beast! The 'Stegosaurus'.
The old city was dominated by the fortress of Antonia the seat of Roman power and by the great golden temple the outward sign of an inward and imperishable faith.
These young warriors are not capturing an enemy fortress, but are simply participating in a grand scout game.
The castle's fortress, out of our sight, to the right. is connected to the land through a mobile bridge.
Look, sir first you've got that old fortress on top of that bloody cliff.
Then they kept her in the fortress for six months.

News and current affairs

Even the regulation-reinforced, fortress-like walls that have traditionally surrounded finance and medicine are being eroded.
In doing this they seek to crash through the gates of fortress Europe, refusing to be imprisoned by its narrow assumptions of national or European identity.
In pursuing it, immigrants may also begin to free their longer-established fellow Europeans from their attachment to a fortress that, if taken to extremes, could well become a prison for all.
Likewise, hundreds, if not thousands, of Africans die every year trying to reach the shores of Fortress Europe.
Each valley is guarded by a dzong (fortress), which includes monasteries and temples, all dating back centuries and exhibiting a masterful combination of sophisticated architecture and fine arts.
To accommodate his security needs, the hotel had been converted into a fortress, much like Israel itself.
Faced with a humanitarian crisis in the Mediterranean, the EU has responded by trying to build a fortress.
But the fortress has merely rechanneled, rather than stemmed, the flow of people, forcing migrants and refugees to attempt dangerous sea crossings - even as search and rescue operations are being scaled back.
The lesson of the migration crisis in the Mediterranean is clear: Fortress Europe is not working.
Increasingly, we must recognize that our borders are not fortress walls. They are simply lines that we have sketched in the air.
So the civil war will continue, the number of refugees in transit camps will increase, and more of them will risk their lives to enter leaky Fortress Europe.
Increasingly, we must recognize that our borders are not fortress walls.

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