embattle

Those raids have further threatened a health care system in the embattle territory that is struggling to cope with the fallout from the war.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 30, 2024

Hunting out two aggressive spiders, he would embattle them and watch with glee through a magnifying glass.

From Time Magazine Archive

He pursued his way over the craigs; through the valley, and across the river, to the cliffs which embattle the garden of Ellerslie.

From The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter

And Douglas found the forces that were to embattle him drawing up in line.

From Children of the Market Place by Edgar Lee Masters

If we be not reliev'd within this hour, We must return to thecourt of guard: the night Is shiny; and they say we shall embattle By the second hour i' the morn.

From Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

Now baseball’s best owner is suddenly its most embattled owner, and Dodgers fans should be afraid.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

China sentenced the founder of embattled property giant Evergrande to life in prison and fined the group more than $2 billion on Thursday for offences including fraud, five years after a high-profile default.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

President Donald Trump has apparently found a new adviser for his embattled White House ballroom: George Washington.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

Vollering backed her embattled teammate Gery and everyone took the high road.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

But, over time, the middle ground that people like Sprat and Bentley had sought to occupy between superstition and rationalism became increasingly embattled, and the pendulum began to swing the other way.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

He organized it piecemeal, on a class basis, instead of embattling it as a whole.

From William Pitt and the Great War by John Holland Rose

Oh! she could have lingered there forever! and hardly did she know what it was to draw any but sighs of bliss till she saw the towers of Paris embattling the horizon.

From The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter

But after embattling his facts, an advocate who should wholly suppress a not unreasonable surmise, which might tell eloquently upon his cause—such an advocate, would he not be blame-worthy?

From Moby Dick: or, the White Whale by Herman Melville

But after embattling his facts, an advocate who should wholly suppress a not unreasonable surmise, which might tell eloquently upon his cause—such an advocate, would he not be blameworthy?

From Moby Dick, or, the whale by Herman Melville

Then in embattling his Legions, he places the Saints here, and the Angels there, as if one were the main Battle of Infantry, and the other the Wings of Cavalry.

From The History of the Devil As Well Ancient as Modern: In Two Parts by Daniel Defoe