The quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment.
A rate (usually rapid) at which something happens.
A strongly fortified defensive structure.
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Examples for "stronghold "
Examples for "stronghold "
1 The murdered; the royal stronghold is in the hands of the babe-killers.
2 Hospital authorities said 20 people were injured in Kisumu, an opposition stronghold .
3 Soldiers are advancing on the militants' main stronghold area from three directions.
4 Common sense told him the Sheik's stronghold would be higher, not lower.
5 Tripoli, historically a stronghold for Sunni Islamism, is seen as particularly vulnerable.
1 The Indians of the Muskingum valley felt secure in their wilderness fastness .
2 Kut-le drew rein beside a little waterfall deep in the mountain fastness .
3 Up the cliff they clambered, and soon spied us in our fastness .
4 The Saxons were not strong enough to dispossess them of their fastness .
5 I was told I had license throughout the fastness during the convocation.
6 Sechele retired to a mountain fastness , named Lithubaruba, away to the north-west.
7 They affect a fastness which is painful to see in boys so young.
8 The news had travelled speedily into that mountain fastness , it seemed.
9 They are dye-stuffs which form with copper blue colour lakes of some fastness .
10 His spirit retired far into its fastness , taking with it all his energies.
11 A strong stick was needful to explore that leafy fastness thoroughly.
12 You will be locked up in the mountain fastness , alone, forever.
13 How may the fastness of a colored material be tested to withstand friction?
14 Having built, however, this secret and solitary fastness , he gradually became more daring.
15 The Irish formerly called Dingle Daingean in Cushy, or the fastness of the Husseys.
16 With regard to the fastness of the shades produced the following may be considered:-
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