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

But a spiky rampart of intellectuality surrounds Lerner’s work.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2019

“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

They found a few crumbled stairways, but nothing that even came close to the rampart.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley

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

Defenders of the bolillo ascended the ramparts of the internet to defend their humble fare.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025

Anyone who hopes to preserve the sanctity of the civil-military ideal would do well to circle the wagons of law and constitutionalism and man the ramparts of institutional self-preservation.

From Salon ● Jan. 12, 2025

Under cover of darkness they would filter from the top of the tower on to the ramparts.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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

Impassive he sits, aloof and aloft, ramparted by his desk, ensconced between curtains to keep out the draught—for might not a puff of wind scatter the animated dust that he consists of?

From Yet Again by Sir Max Beerbohm

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