embattlement

Example Sentences

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More recent events have contributed to a sense of embattlement in the Black community.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 5, 2023

For disparate Germans to come together required a common sense of embattlement.

From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 2022

As an evangelical myself, for a long time I mostly embraced the narrative of embattlement.

From Salon • Sep. 9, 2020

I had taken a similar survey a few miles down the valley at theNewtonmore club, which, as though sharing a feeling of embattlement, has reciprocal membership with Kingussie.

From Golf Digest • Apr. 14, 2020

Without going on that neck of land she could not be reached by the gun, and this passage was grimly guarded by that sloping embattlement of ice.

From The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers by Rolt-Wheeler, Francis