embattle

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Children of the Market Place by Masters, Edgar Lee

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 Porter, Jane

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 Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)