crenel

Example Sentences

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“The crenels are all flat now. It’s slippy and feels dangerous when I walk on it.”

From Time

Drifts climbed the walls and filled the crenels along the battlements, white blankets covered every roof, tents sagged beneath the weight.

From Literature

On the inside of the rampart and in the wide crenel between two upthrust merlons.

From Literature

The heads were mounted between the crenels, along the top of the wall, impaled on iron spikes so they faced out over the city.

From Literature

Over it there is sprung a high-arched, rough stone bridge, with crenelled walls, quite as artistic in its way as may be found in pictures of ancient English brook-crossings.

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