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

As an evangelical myself, for a long time I mostly embraced the narrative of embattlement.

From Salon • Sep. 9, 2020

I had taken a similar survey a few miles down the valley at theNewtonmore club, which, as though sharing a feeling of embattlement, has reciprocal membership with Kingussie.

From Golf Digest • Apr. 14, 2020

“Constantly embattled. . . . The embattlement comes from inside and out. It’s a constant state of embattlement. Constantly.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 18, 2020

A sound public opinion is the best embattlement of any home front.

From Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray by Wood, William Charles Henry