rampart

Mr Ambekar says that portions of an earthen rampart believed to have been built by the region's first settlers exists even today.

From BBC ● May 5, 2025

Up close, the structure, which will cost as much as $40 million, looks less like a dune and more like a rampart.

From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2022

But a spiky rampart of intellectuality surrounds Lerner’s work.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2019

“If this wall breaks, there’s simply no holding back the Java Sea,” said Brinkman, gesturing from the rampart toward the city.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 21, 2017

He has already transmitted the location of one air-defense battery: a cannon on a shelf of rampart beside the Hotel of Bees.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

This laid-back, cafe-laden ledge is located above the beaches and ancient ramparts where the Douro River pours through its last, lovely tributaries into the Atlantic Ocean.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

The tilted-over towers overlooking the palace moat have all been brought back upright, and workers are building new brick castellations for their supporting ramparts.

From Barron's ● Mar. 26, 2026

Through the use of aerial surveys and photogrammetry mapping, it is suspected that 98 of the house platforms were inside the inner enclosure and more than 500 were located between the two ramparts.

From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2026

That same year, with his painstaking production of The Beach Boys’ blockbuster single “Good Vibrations,” Wilson seemed poised to explore even greater musical ramparts.

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2025

Well after midnight, a magnificent high tide arrives, the largest waves smashing against the bases of the ramparts, the sea green and aerated and networked with seething rafts of moonlit foam.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

We visited rambling, ramparted castles like the massive Llansteffan, framed by cerulean skies overlooking the sea, and we walked through landscapes where thick hedgerows line country lanes.

From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2014

His faith was as firm as the bluffs that ramparted the fort, and his old heart was unafraid.

From The Plow-Woman by Eleanor Gates

Step by step he fought his way up, over breastworks and rifle pits, felled trees and bowlders, through ravines and gullies, till the vanguard reached the giant palisades of rock which ramparted the top.

From Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray by William Charles Henry Wood

The church, which has no vicar of its own, being served from Selmeston, a mile away, stands high amid its graves, the whole churchyard having been heaped up and ramparted much as a castle is.

From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs

Formerly, I thought that death was wearing out,—I stood ramparted about with so many healthy friends.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb