rampart

Its towering, mostly unbroken face and narrow swimming pool suggested a rampart and a moat, but behind the concrete exterior, Caland eliminated every door save the guest bathroom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

Mr Ambekar says that portions of an earthen rampart believed to have been built by the region's first settlers exists even today.

From BBC ● May 5, 2025

Up close, the structure, which will cost as much as $40 million, looks less like a dune and more like a rampart.

From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2022

In a nation whose strict policies earned it the nickname “Fortress Australia,” the last rampart has fallen.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2022

How we longed to poke that dune with the sample arm, look for life beneath that rock, see if that distant ridge was a crater rampart.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

The 75-year-old leader made the announcement while speaking from the ramparts of New Delhi's imposing 17th-century Red Fort to mark the country's independence from Britain on August 15, 1947.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

This laid-back, cafe-laden ledge is located above the beaches and ancient ramparts where the Douro River pours through its last, lovely tributaries into the Atlantic Ocean.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

Through the use of aerial surveys and photogrammetry mapping, it is suspected that 98 of the house platforms were inside the inner enclosure and more than 500 were located between the two ramparts.

From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2026

Defenders of the bolillo ascended the ramparts of the internet to defend their humble fare.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025

Fifty meters to the ramparts, a hundred or so more along the base of the walls; from her pocket she pulls Hubert Bazin’s iron key.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

We visited rambling, ramparted castles like the massive Llansteffan, framed by cerulean skies overlooking the sea, and we walked through landscapes where thick hedgerows line country lanes.

From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2014

Impassive he sits, aloof and aloft, ramparted by his desk, ensconced between curtains to keep out the draught—for might not a puff of wind scatter the animated dust that he consists of?

From Yet Again by Sir Max Beerbohm

The site is ramparted and habitable where the ovens stand.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 24 of 55 1630-34 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson

They sleep at Langres, which ramparted town surely ought to have left a pleasant reminiscence; but they had hitherto found the route uninteresting and fatiguing.

From Mrs. Shelley by Lucy Madox Brown Rossetti

Had not nature ramparted up the tongue with teeth and the lips with hair as reins and bridles against the tongue's loose use.

From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Helen Archibald Clarke