embattlement

Example Sentences

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More recent events have contributed to a sense of embattlement in the Black community.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 5, 2023

For disparate Germans to come together required a common sense of embattlement.

From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 2022

Accurate reporting and erroneous articles alike bred a deep sense of embattlement in Palo Alto.

From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2021

The answer, I learned in conversation with colleagues who had signed a petition demanding an apology from me, was that I had triggered the evangelical sense of embattlement.

From Salon • Sep. 9, 2020

Without going on that neck of land she could not be reached by the gun, and this passage was grimly guarded by that sloping embattlement of ice.

From The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers by Rolt-Wheeler, Francis