rampart

New excavations have clarified the existence of a multi-phase ditch, rampart and wall built across a narrow section of the Oued Beht ridge between the river and a ravine.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

Its towering, mostly unbroken face and narrow swimming pool suggested a rampart and a moat, but behind the concrete exterior, Caland eliminated every door save the guest bathroom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

Mr Ambekar says that portions of an earthen rampart believed to have been built by the region's first settlers exists even today.

From BBC ● May 5, 2025

Up close, the structure, which will cost as much as $40 million, looks less like a dune and more like a rampart.

From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2022

The sun has gone down over the rampart walls, and the guards manning them turn into silhouettes.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper

This laid-back, cafe-laden ledge is located above the beaches and ancient ramparts where the Douro River pours through its last, lovely tributaries into the Atlantic Ocean.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

The tilted-over towers overlooking the palace moat have all been brought back upright, and workers are building new brick castellations for their supporting ramparts.

From Barron's ● Mar. 26, 2026

Defenders of the bolillo ascended the ramparts of the internet to defend their humble fare.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025

Anyone who hopes to preserve the sanctity of the civil-military ideal would do well to circle the wagons of law and constitutionalism and man the ramparts of institutional self-preservation.

From Salon ● Jan. 12, 2025

They disappeared behind the ramparts of the fort.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

We visited rambling, ramparted castles like the massive Llansteffan, framed by cerulean skies overlooking the sea, and we walked through landscapes where thick hedgerows line country lanes.

From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2014

Had not nature ramparted up the tongue with teeth and the lips with hair as reins and bridles against the tongue's loose use.

From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Helen Archibald Clarke

No passer-by would have guessed that the three partners were ensconced in the black mouth of the tunnel, ramparted by the dump heap, watching for developments they were fairly sure would start with darkness.

From Rimrock Trail by Joseph Allan Dunn

Secure in his impregnable egotism, ramparted about with mighty walls of conceit, he bids defiance to attack, and lives an enviable life of self-centred pleasure.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 26, 1892 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand

That is why all the theological heavens are sublimely ramparted against attack.

From The Critical Game by John Albert Macy