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embattle

[em-bat-l] / ɛmˈbæt l /


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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

She feared he would vent plain speech that would cut Mr. Feuerstein's sensitive soul and embattle his dignity and pride against his love.

From The Fortune Hunter by David Graham Phillips

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

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

At the moment, however, the president is embattled.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

Acme’s success is the latest humiliation for embattled Warner Bros.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026

And Essayli, the administration’s embattled appointee to lead one of the largest federal prosecutor’s offices in the country, has been no exception.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Mr. James captures the actors’ sense of embattled defiance amid a Jamaica he portrays as increasingly unhinged.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Any place that’s war- torn, by the way, is bound to be embattled or besieged. what makes him tick.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

The portly peltry of a goat; its horns embattling its effigy head; its mouth the nozzle; and its long beard flowed to its jet-black hoofs.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville

It has been supposed that the embattling of an army was first learned by observing the close order of the flight of these birds.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by William Cowper

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

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

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




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