Meanings
comparative more bastionlike · superlative most bastionlike
- Resembling or characteristic of a bastion.
We pointed to the bastionlike range we had just come over, the thousands of feet we must climb again to reach the track: […]
1964 August 29, Sheila Burnford, “Walking”, in The Atlantic1 more example
Even from his office in the bastionlike Municipal Building, 19 stories above the silently bustling city, the pressure to run pulls like aggravated gravity on the first-term 61-year-old Manhattan Borough President.
1988 November 28, Michel Marriott, “To Run or Not to Run: Dinkins's Struggle”, in The New York Times
Origin
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