How to Use bastion in a Sentence

bastion

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  • Some say the trading floor is the last bastion of Wall Street, where interns and young employees learn by osmosis.
    — David Benoit, WSJ, 6 July 2021
  • The Boston mayor’s office has been an especially durable bastion of white male power.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2021
  • But what about on one of the Mediterranean's most famous party islands -- Mykonos -- known as a bastion of hedonism?
    — Hannah Seligson, CNN, 2 July 2021
  • Online information is pretty sparse, Airbnbs are few and far between, and the lake is known more as a bastion of bass fishing than anything else.
    — San Francisco Chronicle, 1 July 2021
  • The iconic department store first opened in 1880 and has been a bastion of style and celebration ever since.
    — Amy Louise Bailey, Travel + Leisure, 16 July 2021
  • Miami is a bastion for organizing and fundraising efforts by émigrés.
    — Ryan Dube, WSJ, 14 July 2021
  • But South Carolina, long a bastion of Republicanism, stayed true to form.
    — Carol D. Leonnig and Philip Rucker Washington Post, Star Tribune, 13 July 2021
  • In its infancy, the internet was still second to anything IRL, a bastion of all that was niche and experimental.
    — Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 9 July 2021
  • The only major remaining bastion against the global wave of sub-replacement levels of childbearing is sub-Saharan Africa.
    — Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • The area has long been a bastion of resistance in Afghanistan.
    — Saphora Smith, NBC News, 1 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • The trunk is often a bastion for all kinds of groceries, sports bags, and luggage.
    — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 24 Mar. 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
  • In contrast, Iowa, has gone from a swing state that Obama carried twice to a Trump bastion.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Its founders envisaged it as a bastion of free thought.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2023
  • Today, while the share of white Louisville residents has risen, the West End remains a bastion of Black culture in the city.
    — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 15 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • Chicago has always been a bastion of meat and potatoes.
    — Ari Bendersky, Robb Report, 30 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • Other than the Department of Justice, Congress is the last bastion that can stop this.
    — Julian Zelizer, CNN, 25 July 2021
  • Last year, Sundance was the first in-person version of the festival since the pandemic forced the bastion of American independent filmmaking online for two years.
    — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2024

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