embattle
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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
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
If we be not reliev'd within this hour, We must return to thecourt of guard: the night Is shiny; and they say we shall embattle By the second hour i' the morn.
From Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
He pursued his way over the craigs; through the valley, and across the river, to the cliffs which embattle the garden of Ellerslie.
From The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter
President Donald Trump has apparently found a new adviser for his embattled White House ballroom: George Washington.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
It was also attended by embattled Fifa president Gianni Infantino.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
“Could the political parties ever be cleansed of corruption? What place would African Americans have in American society? Would Native Americans survive at all, and at what cost to their embattled cultures?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
The legal filing follows two lawsuits brought by former housekeepers of the embattled reality star.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
Any place that’s war- torn, by the way, is bound to be embattled or besieged. what makes him tick.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
Oh! she could have lingered there forever! and hardly did she know what it was to draw any but sighs of bliss till she saw the towers of Paris embattling the horizon.
From The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter
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
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
The portly peltry of a goat; its horns embattling its effigy head; its mouth the nozzle; and its long beard flowed to its jet-black hoofs.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I 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
