battlement

Example Sentences

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A gun sits atop a buried battlement under the flags, part of a vast underground network of German defenses.

From Seattle Times • May 15, 2019

But in the six decades that the Henderson Castle loomed over 16th Street NW, it was probably the city’s most impressive faux battlement.

From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2017

Their favorite part of the home is its roof terrace, located in one of the battlement towers.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2016

Hairdressers with ideas above their stations; dreary waifs wilting in garrets; talking statues; battlement suicides; to say nothing of the one with the Viking hats.

From The Guardian • Feb. 14, 2011

In it there was a single gate of iron, and upon its battlement sentinels paced unceasingly.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien