How to Use stronghold in a Sentence

stronghold

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  • The rebels retreated to their mountain stronghold.
  • The area is a Republican stronghold.
  • Putin ordered his troops not to storm the stronghold but to seal it off.
    — David Keyton and Yesica Fisch, ajc, 22 Apr. 2022
  • In the east, the chart shows the remnants of the Crusader strongholds and the final throes of the Byzantine Empire.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The region was a stronghold for Trump in the 2016 primary.
    — Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The west of France, once a stronghold of the Socialist Party, went to Macron.
    — Elisabeth Zerofsky, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Newcastle was a Labour stronghold, as was the rest of the northeast.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The two escape and join a group of people on their way to a larger stronghold.
    — Theara Coleman, The Week, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The ranch is a stronghold; more than once its defense is likened to warfare.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2023
  • Putin ordered troops Thursday not to storm the stronghold but to seal it off.
    — Editors, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2022
  • At the time, some of the Afghan war’s fiercest fighting took place in the Taliban stronghold where Reed’s unit deployed.
    — Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2023
  • The rest of the Top 5 remains a Carpenter stronghold as well.
    — Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 17 Sep. 2024
  • This creek is one of the country’s last hellbender strongholds.
    — Benji Jones, Vox, 18 June 2024
  • The district used to be a GOP stronghold, covering the rural southern half of the state.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2022
  • More than 250 people were taken hostage and moved to Hamas’ Gaza stronghold.
    — Bianna Golodryga, CNN, 7 Apr. 2024
  • Troops move into the north of the territory with the aim of capturing the Hamas stronghold of Gaza City.
    — The Week Uk, theweek, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Many of the explosions rocked the southern suburbs of Beirut, the main Hezbollah stronghold.
    — Emily Feng, NPR, 18 Sep. 2024
  • The monastery is a stronghold of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which was then loyal to Moscow.
    — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
  • The images emerged just hours after Putin ordered his troops to blockade rather than storm the last Ukrainian stronghold in the city.
    — NBC News, 22 Apr. 2022
  • So far, the Israeli military has advanced to the outskirts of Gaza City but not entered the Hamas stronghold.
    — Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2023
  • In rural areas, a GOP stronghold, Biden picks up 35% from women, vs. 25% from men.
    — Gary Langer, ABC News, 5 May 2024
  • Humpback chub, by contrast, have their stronghold deep in the Grand Canyon, some 75 miles downriver from the dam, where bass haven’t shown up—at least not yet.
    — WIRED, 4 Nov. 2023
  • In Texas, a historic stronghold for United Methodists, more than 40 percent of churches have left.
    — Ruth Graham, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2023
  • In the coming days, Biden will likely press to forestall plans for a direct assault on Rafah, a city in Gaza that serves as Hamas’s last stronghold.
    — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2024
  • The debate is playing out on Fox News, which was a stronghold of Trump support during his years in office.
    — Liz Goodwin, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Nov. 2022
  • This medieval castle once served as a defensive stronghold for the city of Oslo and it is rumored to be the most haunted place in all of Norway.
    — Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 13 Aug. 2023
  • In May, hundreds of Ukrainian fighters who had defended the last stronghold in the city, the Azovstal steel plant, surrendered.
    — Simon Shuster, Time, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Now a state park and historic landmark, for the past several decades the fort has served as a stronghold of another kind — for jazz music.
    — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The county is a conservative stronghold located about an hour north of Phoenix.
    — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 6 Nov. 2024
  • The processing of ballots in Fulton County, one of Georgia’s main Democratic strongholds, continues to vex her.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2024

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