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Recent Examples of battlement
The visit commences in the main piazzetta, home to the 12-century Saint Thomas Becket of Canterbury church and the medieval castle whose battlements loom over the village.
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Jaclyn Degiorgio, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 July 2024
Pedestrians sauntered along a row of European flagship boutiques nestled in battlements of creamy limestone: Gucci, YSL, Prada, Louis Vuitton.
—Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
Hike up the road to the summit on the back side of Mt. Ballyhoo to see some of the old battlements.
—Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 3 June 2023
The castle now belongs to the family of an Italian lawyer who purchased the fortified island in 1912 and began restoration of its battlements, churches, convents, crypts and gardens.
—Joe Yogerst, CNN, 11 May 2023
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Jaclyn Degiorgio, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 July 2024
Pedestrians sauntered along a row of European flagship boutiques nestled in battlements of creamy limestone: Gucci, YSL, Prada, Louis Vuitton.
—Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
Hike up the road to the summit on the back side of Mt. Ballyhoo to see some of the old battlements.
—Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 3 June 2023
The castle now belongs to the family of an Italian lawyer who purchased the fortified island in 1912 and began restoration of its battlements, churches, convents, crypts and gardens.
—Joe Yogerst, CNN, 11 May 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for battlement
Noun
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Then, as the credits sequence continues through the creative team, things get more ominous: Monkeys assemble together, climbing the parapets, even as someone tries to hold them off (?) with a spider.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
16 Feb. 2025
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And to allay the fears of brownstone-dwellers: A cornice is not a parapet, so most brownstones don’t actually have parapets.—
Kim Velsey,
Curbed,
9 Oct. 2024
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Perhaps halfway up to the crest which forms the ramparts of the Mule Shoe was a jutting bastion of orange-colored rock.—
Frank C. Hibben,
Outdoor Life,
27 Feb. 2025
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The 18th-century ramparts encircling the city are free to climb and boast dramatic ocean views.—
Livia Hengel,
Forbes,
26 Nov. 2024
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This fortress comes as Buffett struggles to find his next big investment target.—
Fred Imbert,
CNBC,
22 Feb. 2025
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Not even Martin Short’s lady friend and her fortress of Oscar statuettes are immune to the chaos Kate McKinnon’s paranormal sketches can unleash on your psyche.—
Devon Ivie,
Vulture,
16 Feb. 2025
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Amid the rapid change in the 800 and 400 free events, now the fans await how long Katie Ledecky will hold her fort in the 1500.—
Paras J. Haji,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2025
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But after some years, the cesspool got bigger, and our fort got smaller, and eventually the cesspool must have looked inviting.—
Willy Staley,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 2025
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The storybook castle was built more than 700 years ago by the knights of Chasteignier de la Roche-Posay.—
Sofia Celeste,
WWD,
26 Feb. 2025
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In winter 1524-1525, the peasants were able to capture castles and monasteries without much bloodshed.—
Michael Bruening,
The Conversation,
25 Feb. 2025
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Indeed, there are a variety of low-cost measures such as mines and fortifications that would help to make the conquest of Ukraine more difficult, and Ukraine’s own defense industrial base is well positioned to produce many of these domestically with Western support.—
Emma Ashford,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Feb. 2025
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The fortifications and trench lines here are a part of nearly 600-mile-long defensive system holding Russia back from the heartland of Ukraine.—
Brian Mann,
NPR,
2 Jan. 2025
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The French and the British leaders have both floated the possibility of deploying their own nations’ armies to Ukraine as a postwar bulwark against further Russian aggression.—
NR Editors,
National Review,
28 Feb. 2025
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Some incoming officials in the Trump administration have suggested drawing down American troop levels in Europe, which serve as a bulwark against Russia, so Washington can focus its military efforts on defending against China.—
David Pierson,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
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Its objective was not to retreat from the citadels of governance but to place them under siege.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
The New Yorker,
19 Feb. 2025
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Dominated by the enormous Pyramid of the Sun, the Pyramid of the Moon, and a citadel, which sits along the 2.5-mile-long Avenue of the Dead, the site awed even the Aztecs, who wondered what vanished civilization could have created such a monumental city.—
John Newton,
AFAR Media,
24 Jan. 2025
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