Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: forts
IPA transcription: [f'ɔɹts]
Usage examples
  • No one is allowed to go to the forts.
  • "If you want to go to the forts you must be on hand early."
  • Just outside one of the forts, the nine stolen animals were securely tied.
  • "I do not know that we shall ever go to the forts again," her father had replied.
  • Washington ought to send troops and provisions for the forts at once!" replied Mr. Fulton.
  • Again a fort was erected and named Fort Fraser, making three forts in the interior of New Caledonia.
  • England, it may be believed, did not calmly submit to seeing the ships and forts of her traders seized at Nootka.
  • The General-in-Chief of the United States Army, also, it is well known, urgently advised the evacuation of the forts.
  • The town was defended by strong forts and many cannon, but its speedy capture by us helped to open up the Mississippi River.
  • These were formidable forts of masonry, with an armament together of over a hundred guns, and garrisons of about six hundred men each.