embattle

Those raids have further threatened a health care system in the embattle territory that is struggling to cope with the fallout from the war.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 30, 2024

Hunting out two aggressive spiders, he would embattle them and watch with glee through a magnifying glass.

From Time Magazine Archive

And Douglas found the forces that were to embattle him drawing up in line.

From Children of the Market Place by Edgar Lee Masters

They were razed by commission, or by writs to the sheriffs; and a law was further enacted that “none hereafter, without license, should embattle his house.”

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

In England generally castles belonged only to the Crown or to great nobles, and no gentleman was suffered to castellate or embattle his walls without a special licence from the Crown.

From Cornwall by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

The second is unique to him: dealing with the increasingly uncertain fate of the embattled John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the orchestra’s home since 1971.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

At the moment, however, the president is embattled.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

Acme’s success is the latest humiliation for embattled Warner Bros.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026

Now baseball’s best owner is suddenly its most embattled owner, and Dodgers fans should be afraid.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

The unprecedented price demanded—and at this embattled hour of the world’s history—is the transcendence of the realities of color, of nations, and of altars.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin

But after embattling his facts, an advocate who should wholly suppress a not unreasonable surmise, which might tell eloquently upon his cause—such an advocate, would he not be blame-worthy?

From Moby Dick: or, the White Whale by Herman Melville

It has been supposed that the embattling of an army was first learned by observing the close order of the flight of these birds.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by William Cowper

But after embattling his facts, an advocate who should wholly suppress a not unreasonable surmise, which might tell eloquently upon his cause—such an advocate, would he not be blameworthy?

From Moby Dick, or, the whale by Herman Melville

He organized it piecemeal, on a class basis, instead of embattling it as a whole.

From William Pitt and the Great War by John Holland Rose

Then in embattling his Legions, he places the Saints here, and the Angels there, as if one were the main Battle of Infantry, and the other the Wings of Cavalry.

From The History of the Devil As Well Ancient as Modern: In Two Parts by Daniel Defoe