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battlement

noun

Definition of battlement

as in parapet

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Recent Examples of battlement Sunrise—when the battlements catch the first light, and the silence runs unbroken along the ridgeline. — Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 20 Feb. 2026 The entrance looks like the stone wall of the castle where Anna and Elsa live, complete with battlements at the top. — Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 19 Feb. 2026 The group has quite literally been split into two camps, separated by barbed wire, battlements, and corpses. — Jack King, Vulture, 31 Dec. 2025 Meanwhile, Desmond Castle stands watch beyond the village park—its stone battlements and arrow slits recalling Norman skirmishes and feudal lords. — Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for battlement

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All along the parapets, Ormund’s child soldiers are vomiting and pissing themselves.

— Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026
The work entails concrete parapet wall repair on the Yellow Mill Pond Bridge.

— Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 18 July 2026

Definition of parapet

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Holding their accounts on freeze like a fortress are smarmy bank managers who laugh in the face of Beirut citizens who attempt a demand on their own funds.

— Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2026
Most of them can’t afford to outfit their own individual townhouses like armed fortresses as Swift has.

— Bridget Read, Curbed, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of fortress

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The area is currently listed on the National Register of Historic Places and forms part of the Gateway National Recreation Area, with a theater and hiking trails featured alongside the fort’s coastal batteries.

— Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 7 Sep. 2026
Under Spanish rule, able-bodied Malay men, from teenagers to adults, were required to perform 40 days of unpaid annual labor on roads, bridges, churches, forts, piers, plantations, haciendas and mines.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of fort

Noun

Pancho opposed the fortification of the town, although most of his siblings supported it.

— Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2026
During the seven years that it was occupied by British forces, Manhattan had been ravaged by fires, picked over by looters, covered in fortifications, and swollen with refugees.

— Eric Lach, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of fortification

Noun

The idea that the state is so reliably progressive, and needs to remain a bulwark against conservative federal politics, ran through the primary.

— David Weigel, semafor.com, 2 Sep. 2026
Values that, in his view, have always served as a bulwark against crises and divisions.

— Stefania Conrieri, Vanity Fair, 28 Aug. 2026

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