battlement

Example Sentences

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They are forever standing on the battlements of Christendom or Western Civilization, resisting nobly but perhaps futilely the onslaught of barbarians, heretics and secular humanists.

From Salon

She was the anarchic idealist who stormed the battlements of the status quo and transformed Britain.

From BBC

Civil War battlements later carved up its fields.

From Washington Times

And drifted thereafter to sleep under the moonlit gaze of the Dolomites, encircling the rifugio with their jagged battlements and ridges, like a fortress against the world that I’d soon reenter.

From Washington Post

You would transition from someone whispering in the darkness, on the battlements of a castle in Denmark, to a prince seeing ghosts and stabbing at tapestries.

From Scientific American