embattlement

Example Sentences

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More recent events have contributed to a sense of embattlement in the Black community.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 5, 2023

The answer, I learned in conversation with colleagues who had signed a petition demanding an apology from me, was that I had triggered the evangelical sense of embattlement.

From Salon • Sep. 9, 2020

I had taken a similar survey a few miles down the valley at theNewtonmore club, which, as though sharing a feeling of embattlement, has reciprocal membership with Kingussie.

From Golf Digest • Apr. 14, 2020

“Constantly embattled. . . . The embattlement comes from inside and out. It’s a constant state of embattlement. Constantly.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 18, 2020

The father from the Alpine wall, and from Monœcus' height830 Comes down; the son against him turns the East's embattlement.

From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by Morris, William