rampart

Example Sentences

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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

“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

In the late afternoon, my guide Izabela meets me outside a McDonald’s next to a historic rampart that once was part of the city walls.

From Washington Post • Dec. 1, 2016

The rampart a huge crumbling bulwark above him.

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