battlement

Example Sentences

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A gun sits atop a buried battlement under the flags, part of a vast underground network of German defenses.

From Seattle Times • May 15, 2019

But in the six decades that the Henderson Castle loomed over 16th Street NW, it was probably the city’s most impressive faux battlement.

From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2017

Their favorite part of the home is its roof terrace, located in one of the battlement towers.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2016

Hairdressers with ideas above their stations; dreary waifs wilting in garrets; talking statues; battlement suicides; to say nothing of the one with the Viking hats.

From The Guardian • Feb. 14, 2011

Pippin cowered down with his hands pressed to his ears; but Beregond, who had been looking out from the battlement as he spoke of Faramir, remained there, stiffened, staring out with starting eyes.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien