"defensive" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Work started on the castle in the 1100s, and it grew over the centuries to become a defensive stronghold.
- Due to potential dangers of interstate wars, building defensive strongholds were a must.
- They were no longer defensive strongholds from attacks by hostile local tribes, nor sites of resistance to the Roman army.
- Due to technical innovations in warfare, by the end of the 18th century, the round bastion had lost its importance as a defensive stronghold.
- The town was founded as a defensive stronghold on an Old Prussian site.
- In 1688, though, the former upper defensive stronghold was converted into a granary, suggesting a recovering population.
- Unlike the Plantation Cay property, the horse farm wasn't a defensive stronghold.
- The layout of Queenstown reflects its original objective as a defensive stronghold for the frontier area and has a most unusual design.
- If Loki had wanted to create a defensive stronghold for himself, what better place than here, triply protected by his own wonderful fire?
- Rathfarnham Castle itself was re-modelled from a defensive stronghold into a stately home.
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