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

“If this wall breaks, there’s simply no holding back the Java Sea,” said Brinkman, gesturing from the rampart toward the city.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 21, 2017

It demolished a dusty rampart along the border with Syria in an act supposedly symbolizing the smashing of colonial boundaries.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2016

The rampart behind the hotel remains, though many of its embrasures along the top have been shattered.

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

The 75-year-old leader made the announcement while speaking from the ramparts of New Delhi's imposing 17th-century Red Fort to mark the country's independence from Britain on August 15, 1947.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

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

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

Over the centuries, he tells Marie-Laure, the city ramparts have kept out bloodthirsty marauders, Romans, Celts, Norsemen.

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

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

They sleep at Langres, which ramparted town surely ought to have left a pleasant reminiscence; but they had hitherto found the route uninteresting and fatiguing.

From Mrs. Shelley by Lucy Madox Brown Rossetti

The old Radical ghosts go by, more real than the living men, to assault I know not what ramparted city in hell.

From Alarms and Discursions by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

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