rampart

New excavations have clarified the existence of a multi-phase ditch, rampart and wall built across a narrow section of the Oued Beht ridge between the river and a ravine.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

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

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

The rampart behind the hotel remains, though many of its embrasures along the top have been shattered.

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

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

The tilted-over towers overlooking the palace moat have all been brought back upright, and workers are building new brick castellations for their supporting ramparts.

From Barron's ● Mar. 26, 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

Beyond the gun, beyond the embrasures, ramparts plunge forty feet to the green and white plumes of surf.

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

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

The church, which has no vicar of its own, being served from Selmeston, a mile away, stands high amid its graves, the whole churchyard having been heaped up and ramparted much as a castle is.

From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs

The Rounds have been cut across by a road, but there are distinct traces of two ramparted circles, with some remains of a sheltering earthwork to the west.

From The Cornwall Coast by Arthur L. (Arthur Leslie) Salmon

Formerly, I thought that death was wearing out,—I stood ramparted about with so many healthy friends.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb