rampart

Example Sentences

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Gillers said ordinary Americans might find it puzzling that “one half of a married couple is at the ramparts on political issues that then get translated into legal issues that her husband has to decide.”

From Washington Post

Though O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? turned into an embarrassed hum, the crowd still cheered at the end anyway.

From Washington Post

One of the film’s producers, Jeremy Dawson, said that Anderson was looking for a place “with nooks and crannies, corridors, passages, staircases, layers and ramparts.”

From New York Times

In March, hundreds of women stormed the country’s National Palace in Mexico City, attacking the rampart around the president’s residence with bats, blowtorches and hammers, demanding an end to gender-based violence.

From New York Times

He grandstanded about how his unalienable rights were granted not by man but by God, and then asked “all men” to join him on the ramparts, because liberty itself was on the docket.

From Seattle Times