rampart

Example Sentences

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On top of this base, turf would have been laid to build a rampart about 2 metres high.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2023

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

And the overwhelming suspicion was that he was looking for a rampart to which he could retreat in the event of outright civilisational collapse.

From The Guardian • Feb. 15, 2018

Even more alarming, Brinkman pointed out a spot along the waterfront where the wall ends and all that holds back the sea is a low, crumbling concrete rampart.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 21, 2017

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