battlements
Example Sentences
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The two men strolled around the grounds of the castle, taking in the pointless folly of the battlements and arrow slits.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026
Partly in commemoration of that event, local fishermen put their own stamp on the Good Friday bier procession by lighting fires on the battlements of the Venetian-built fortifications.
From Seattle Times • May 4, 2024
Presley was 33 — still young, but at a time when “don’t trust anybody over 30” was a counterculture mantra; he was revolutionary in his age, but those battlements had long been dismantled.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2023
She was the anarchic idealist who stormed the battlements of the status quo and transformed Britain.
From BBC • Dec. 29, 2022
Various walls and battlements, in pieces and all but gone, spoke of past fortresses.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
