How to Use citadel in a Sentence

citadel

noun
  • We visited a medieval citadel in Italy.
  • For the best views, head up to the clifftop and visit the citadel that watches over the town.
    — Ingrid K. Williams, Travel + Leisure, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Even so, the name has stuck through the site’s transition from citadel to showplace.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Does a four-year stint at a citadel of higher learning teach us to think, rather than just to get and spend?
    — James Atlas, Town & Country, 10 July 2018
  • On the far side of the citadel, a mysterious trench bisects a field of bedrock.
    — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
  • The story is a bit murkier than Manichaean talk of stormers and citadels.
    — Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Its position in the citadel, perched high above the city below, means the views are dazzling.
    — New York Times, 15 Dec. 2017
  • All over the world people saw that, at what people around the world would see as the citadel for democracy.
    — NBC News, 21 Mar. 2021
  • There certainly was no gleaming citadel of a Target, as there is now.
    — Michael Nagrant, RedEye Chicago, 6 Oct. 2017
  • Mr Williams often finds citadels with doors that do not close; or crews with no training on what to do if attacked.
    — The Economist, 29 June 2019
  • Its objective was not to retreat from the citadels of governance but to place them under siege.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2025
  • The ancient citadel rises 400 feet above the ivory town of Lindos.
    — Nick Kontis, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2023
  • In good weather, crowds strolled its green parks, shopped in a suburban-style mall and hung out in a plaza at the foot of an ancient citadel.
    — Jared Malsin, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Another clip shows rebels at the city’s citadel, which is also in central Aleppo.
    — Eyad Kourdi, CNN, 30 Nov. 2024
  • In the years that followed, Hayward Field would become a sports citadel, but not of the sport that launched it.
    — oregonlive, 8 July 2022
  • On the other side, Portuguese cannons poke out from the citadel walls, and surf slams into the rocks below.
    — Saki Knafo, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Jan. 2023
  • But when push comes to shove, the Senate is their citadel, offering a high protective wall against even a high wave.
    — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Our beloved Midwest citadels aren't exactly from the times of kings and queens, but someone put them there for a reason.
    — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 30 July 2023
  • When the citadel reopened, the government capped the number of tourists at 2,244 per day.
    — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2023
  • As the prow of a five-film Disney blockbuster franchise, he will never be cast out of the citadel of extreme fame and wealth.
    — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
  • An archeological site, which now sprawls across the citadel grounds, reveals a wealth of relics from the former seat of power.
    — Chris Humphrey, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The lure is La Cité, a 10th-century citadel both fairy-tale and foreboding.
    — Katherine Wheelock, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 June 2017
  • The Incan citadel of Machu Picchu in Peru is known for its marvelous stonework.
    — Sid Perkins, Science | AAAS, 22 Oct. 2019
  • And that’s the reason reason has yet to dent the citadel of MAGA, and never will.
    — Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 22 Apr. 2024
  • The city’s medieval citadel was built on the oasis’s highest hill in order to protect the town from attacks from roving Arab tribes.
    — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Hasmonean and later Roman builders reused the cut stones for other structures, eating away at the Greek citadel.
    — National Geographic, 22 Apr. 2016
  • The citadel remained the seat of Egypt’s government until the 1860s.
    — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 19 Mar. 2019
  • Le Chalet is a weather beaten and isolated bistro in the shadow of the gigantic citadel, at the very end of the harbor.
    — David Holahan, courant.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The father and son duo took in the remains of the massive ancient citadel, with Edoardo sporting a hat in the sun while his son rocked green shorts and a striped shirt.
    — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 17 Nov. 2021
  • After a light breakfast, head to Machu Picchu to see the citadel in the early morning light, before the crowds arrive.
    — National Geographic, 12 June 2019

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