rampart

Example Sentences

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Gillers said ordinary Americans might find it puzzling that “one half of a married couple is at the ramparts on political issues that then get translated into legal issues that her husband has to decide.”

From Washington Post

Though O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? turned into an embarrassed hum, the crowd still cheered at the end anyway.

From Washington Post

The Star-Spangled Banner Keeping watch through a long night of peril and The firing proved not to be sterile and Inspired a ditty Of our flag waving, pretty, O’er some ramparts near Baltimore, Maryland.

From Washington Post

"We are a rampart, we must stay a rampart," he said.

From BBC

Mr. Sandouka grew up just downhill from the Old City’s eastern ramparts, in the valley dividing the Temple Mount from the Mount of Olives.

From New York Times