rampart

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

But a spiky rampart of intellectuality surrounds Lerner’s work.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2019

Even more alarming, Brinkman pointed out a spot along the waterfront where the wall ends and all that holds back the sea is a low, crumbling concrete rampart.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 21, 2017

From every rampart waved the banner of House Tully: a leaping trout, silver, against a rippling blue-and-red field.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

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

“To the ramparts, Hamlet. It comes! It comes anon!”

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

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

Step by step he fought his way up, over breastworks and rifle pits, felled trees and bowlders, through ravines and gullies, till the vanguard reached the giant palisades of rock which ramparted the top.

From Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray by William Charles Henry Wood

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

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