battlement

Example Sentences

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Presley was 33 — still young, but at a time when “don’t trust anybody over 30” was a counterculture mantra; he was revolutionary in his age, but those battlements had long been dismantled.

From Los Angeles Times

They are forever standing on the battlements of Christendom or Western Civilization, resisting nobly but perhaps futilely the onslaught of barbarians, heretics and secular humanists.

From Salon

She was the anarchic idealist who stormed the battlements of the status quo and transformed Britain.

From BBC

Civil War battlements later carved up its fields.

From Washington Times

And drifted thereafter to sleep under the moonlit gaze of the Dolomites, encircling the rifugio with their jagged battlements and ridges, like a fortress against the world that I’d soon reenter.

From Washington Post