battlements
Example Sentences
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The two men strolled around the grounds of the castle, taking in the pointless folly of the battlements and arrow slits.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026
Many visitors to Belfast's Titanic Quarter will have noticed the battlements of the Viking village, for instance, built just across the road from the Titanic Studios.
From BBC • May 7, 2025
The script includes a Chaplinesque chase shot on the battlements of Fort Totten, the Civil War site in Queens.
From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2024
Partly in commemoration of that event, local fishermen put their own stamp on the Good Friday bier procession by lighting fires on the battlements of the Venetian-built fortifications.
From Seattle Times • May 4, 2024
It was three storeys high, of proportions not vast, though considerable: a gentleman’s manor-house, not a nobleman’s seat: battlements round the top gave it a picturesque look.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
