rampart

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

On top of this base, turf would have been laid to build a rampart about 2 metres high.

From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2023

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

In a nation whose strict policies earned it the nickname “Fortress Australia,” the last rampart has fallen.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2022

‘Not far ahead now lies Helm’s Dike, an ancient trench and rampart scored across the coomb, two furlongs below Helm’s Gate. There we can turn and give battle.’

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

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

From his own observations he noted the ramparts sur Brahe wrote: “I have been occupied in alchemy, as much as by the celestial studies, from my 23rd year.”

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

The church, which has no vicar of its own, being served from Selmeston, a mile away, stands high amid its graves, the whole churchyard having been heaped up and ramparted much as a castle is.

From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs

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

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

From The Critical Game by John Albert Macy

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