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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of bulwark.

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Examples

  • The Nationals bulwarked his effort with a breakout offensive night, led by Dunn's monstrous two-run home run in the second inning and capped when Ian Desmond - who had struck out four times Monday night and then refused a day off Tuesday - blasted a solo shot in the ninth.

    Livan Hernandez powers Washington Nationals past Atlanta Braves, 6-0 2010

  • The Nationals bulwarked his effort with a breakout offensive night, led by Dunn's monstrous two-run home run in the second inning and capped when Ian Desmond - who had struck out four times Monday night and then refused a day off Tuesday - blasted a solo shot in the ninth.

    Livan Hernandez powers Washington Nationals past Atlanta Braves, 6-0 2010

  • He didn't say that the British way is better, cleaner, more constitutionally bulwarked – because, actually, it isn't.

    Big Brother may be off-air but he has got his beady eyes on BBC trustees 2010

  • Christopher Wren's great fire Monument in the City of London is to be surrounded bulwarked by this bizarre, pleated accordion mirror-building which will leave only the tip of the Monument visible, serving as part of a giant sundial.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • But their sleep is punctuated by screams, and their days are bulwarked by prayer, booze -- anything to keep the past at bay.

    War Wounds 2008

  • Then he climbed to the mountain top, and, descending the opposite slope, fared on two days till he came in sight of a walled and bulwarked city, abounding in trees and rills.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The WSJ is leaking and it's a sad thing that a formerly trusted institution, which once had strong, bulwarked boundaries, has begun the much expected, post Murdoch acquisition, slippery slide.

    Rove's Obama Hit-Job Re-Run Oozes Out of Murdoch's Wall Street Journal Op-Ed Section 2008

  • The WSJ is leaking and it's a sad thing that a formerly trusted institution, which once had strong, bulwarked boundaries, has begun the much expected, post Murdoch acquisition, slippery slide.

    Printing: Rove's Obama Hit-Job Re-Run Oozes Out of Murdoch's Wall Street Journal Op-Ed Section 2008

  • But their sleep is punctuated by screams, and their days are bulwarked by prayer, booze -- anything to keep the past at bay.

    War Wounds 2008

  • Atlantis, so hints came to me steadily that Ponape and Lele and their basalt bulwarked islets were the last points of the slowly sunken western land clinging still to the sunlight, and had been the last refuge and sacred places of the rulers of that race which had lost their immemorial home under the rising waters of the

    The Moon Pool 2004

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