battlement
Example Sentences
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One night, as she walks with Donatello along a battlement, they see the model nearby, dressed as a friar.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
A gun sits atop a buried battlement under the flags, part of a vast underground network of German defenses.
From Seattle Times • May 15, 2019
But in the six decades that the Henderson Castle loomed over 16th Street NW, it was probably the city’s most impressive faux battlement.
From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2017
Rigid, they seemed less bosom than battlement, and I wondered at my own inflexibility.
From The Guardian • Jun. 4, 2016
In it there was a single gate of iron, and upon its battlement sentinels paced unceasingly.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
