How to Use bulwark in a Sentence

bulwark

noun
  • Now, all that grows are small groups of tamarisk trees planted as a bulwark against the sands.
    Alissa J. Rubin, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2023
  • With the Brooklyn Bridge acting as a bulwark, this slice of New York was tucked away from the rest of the city.
    Nicole Rudick, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023
  • The descent could have been a sullen bulwark of steel and cement.
    Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2022
  • The war helped instill in him the notion of the Catholic Church as a bulwark against evil that would prevail with God’s help.
    Henry Chudeputy News Editor, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Our word of the week was ‘bulwark,; which means strong protection.
    Cameron Buford, al, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Similarly, the pool on the main deck sits flush with a glass bulwark to ensure a clear view of the ocean.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 7 Feb. 2024
  • So, in many ways, the structure of the church provides a bulwark against celebrity culture.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Oct. 2022
  • In Spurrier's view, the silence of Step by Bloody Step is a good bulwark against some of the worst instincts of the fantasy genre.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 23 Feb. 2022
  • With the two cases outlined here – as was the case in 2020 – the courts were a bulwark against attempts to undermine the election.
    Norman Eisen, CNN, 4 Nov. 2022
  • The very existence of a source on this scale is a bulwark against market panic.
    Daniel Yergin, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Federal firefighting crews are the main bulwark at the largest of fires.
    Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 July 2023
  • Men were sinful, and the goodness of women was the essential bulwark against the corruption of the world.
    Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 16 July 2022
  • At least some of the remainder, Jaffe says, is meant to be a bulwark against whatever the next calamity may be.
    Brett Martin, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Bevan also eschewed straight lines in favor of contoured bulwarks that run the length of the yacht.
    Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 23 June 2023
  • It is seen by many officials as a loyal partner and part of a bulwark against Iran.
    Gordon Lubold, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2022
  • At anchor, the aft deck’s collapsible bulwarks can be folded down to increase the size of the beach club to nearly 1,500 square feet.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 27 Nov. 2023
  • The $30 billion bet on First Republic is seen as a bulwark against future bank runs.
    Ken Sweet, ajc, 16 Mar. 2023
  • And so the bulwark imagined by Blinken and his French counterparts appears to have collapsed.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
  • The $30 billion bet o First Republic is seen as a bulwark against future bank runs.
    Ken Sweet, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
  • In this view, Russia is the bulwark of the rest of the world against Western aggression and domination.
    Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2022
  • All three decks are fitted with glass bulwarks that create a more seamless connection to the sea.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 26 Jan. 2024
  • To the aft, there is a large hydraulic platform and two fold-out bulwark terraces that can be lowered to create a vast walkaround beach club.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 31 Jan. 2022
  • That has helped as a bulwark against a recession, but also means the Fed may have to remain aggressive.
    Yuri Kageyama, ajc, 24 Nov. 2022
  • Some on the right view unions as a bulwark against ‘woke capital,’ but labor is even more compromised.
    Michael Watson, National Review, 28 Jan. 2023
  • Poland is rapidly establishing itself as the West’s bulwark in the east.
    Nr Editors, National Review, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Next: Peel up the street cobbles and stack them any which way—so long as the bulwark is tall enough to hide a regiment of street fighters and a squadron of women with rocks in their aprons.
    James Robins, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2023
  • With the unhinged, extreme right tendencies of this Supreme Court, this almost surely won’t be the last time our state will have to step up as a blue bulwark.
    Erika D. Smithcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2022
  • The sprawling aft deck sports fold-out bulwark platforms for additional space and a Jet Ski garage that doubles as a sun pad.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 6 Feb. 2024
  • This shift won’t go unnoticed in places such as Poland and the Baltic states, which have long viewed Belarus as a bulwark between themselves and Russia.
    Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic, 22 Feb. 2022
  • For him, the Senate was the bulwark against politicians like Caesar from acquiring too much power.
    Josiah Osgood, Time, 2 Dec. 2022

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