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
Accurate reporting and erroneous articles alike bred a deep sense of embattlement in Palo Alto.
From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2021
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
Seaford church is dedicated to St. Leonard and is Norman as far as the tower is concerned, of which the embattlement is modern; note the crosses in black flints on three of the sides.
From Seaward Sussex The South Downs from End to End by Edric Holmes
