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

One of them, “View From the Citadel Ramparts in Copenhagen by Moonlight,” shows two sailors and a soldier standing on the rampart of a citadel that was battered during the Napoleonic Wars.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 3, 2023

On the highest rampart of the fortress was a tower of adamant: just one flight of steps up to a set of rooms whose windows looked out north, south, east, and west.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

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

That same year, with his painstaking production of The Beach Boys’ blockbuster single “Good Vibrations,” Wilson seemed poised to explore even greater musical ramparts.

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2025

“We wanted to be outsiders on the ramparts picking off the big shots,” Carter writes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2025

Shearwaters skim the ramparts; sleeves of vapor enshroud the steeple.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

His faith was as firm as the bluffs that ramparted the fort, and his old heart was unafraid.

From The Plow-Woman by Eleanor Gates

The site is ramparted and habitable where the ovens stand.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 24 of 55 1630-34 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson

Impassive he sits, aloof and aloft, ramparted by his desk, ensconced between curtains to keep out the draught—for might not a puff of wind scatter the animated dust that he consists of?

From Yet Again by Sir Max Beerbohm

Youth is a fool; the young Titans cannot scale heaven,—heaven, that, if what I live through be true, is ramparted round with tyrant lies!

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 by Various