How to Use battlement in a Sentence

battlement

noun
  • Low battlements, about waist height, protect us from the drop on either side.
    — Anna Hartley, chicagotribune.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • This isn’t a conscious effort to shore up the southern battlements?
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
  • One more guard will be patrolling the battlements at the top, but getting past him is just a matter of timing.
    — Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
  • As part of that, some of its defensive features like towers and battlements were removed.
    — Katie Nadworny, Travel + Leisure, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Dressed in jeans and trainers, Mr Kinnear heaved a battlement across the studio.
    — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
  • The group has quite literally been split into two camps, separated by barbed wire, battlements, and corpses.
    — Jack King, Vulture, 31 Dec. 2025
  • In the narrator’s hands, cliché becomes a kind of battlement, fencing off the keep where his characters have taken shelter.
    — Robert Rubsam, The New Republic, 24 Feb. 2022
  • The unusual quatrefoil motifs of some individual quilt blocks are based on the four-pronged footprint of battlements known as star forts.
    — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Rirette Maîtrejean and Victor Kibaltchiche met on the battlements of the class war, which fueled their affair and gave it purpose.
    — Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2017
  • In one of the stories Garrone adapts, a handsome king on the battlements of his castle hears a beautiful female voice from the houses of the poor below.
    — Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books, 9 May 2019
  • Cersei and Sansa would be cooped up in there with the other noblewomen and children, hearing occasional reports from the battlements.
    — Joanna Robinson, vanityfair.com, 26 Sep. 2017
  • Bronn and Jaime stand on the battlements, looking out over Daenerys’ Unsullied army and Dothraki allies.
    — Danielle Ohl, baltimoresun.com, 28 Aug. 2017
  • But if today’s nationalists and alt-righters really charged the battlements under his banner, why is Trump, and not Buchanan, at the vanguard?
    — James Poulos, Orange County Register, 20 May 2017
  • On the island of Ischia, near Naples, stands a fortress, a formidable set of battlements and turrets that seem to shoot out of sheer rock, with a vertiginous drop to the sea below.
    — Sarah Dunant, New York Times, 1 June 2018
  • The modernist genius took the few remaining elements of the medieval fortress—which used to be a Roman defense tower—and devised a new castle with battlements and straight lines that are not very common in its style.
    — Virginia Irurita, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
  • Covering the central nave are superb 14th-century frescoes whose delicacy is all the more striking because of the rugged battlements surrounding them.
    — Christopher Bagley, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 May 2018
  • 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
  • The police later found an orange rope tied to a flagpole outside, which the fleeing thieves may have used to clamber down a 10-foot brick battlement wall, part of the original city fortifications, from the garden to the path below.
    — New York Times, 18 Jan. 2021
  • Buildings of this style were often made of stone and could be identified by their elaborate asymmetrical rooflines, tourelles, and battlements with machicolations—all of which can be seen enveloping the façade of Ardross Castle.
    — Alison McDermott, Architectural Digest, 19 Feb. 2026
  • 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.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 10 June 2025
  • 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.
    — Jaclyn Degiorgio, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Bryce combined Gothic and Renaissance elements in the estate’s regal design, accentuating the exterior with turrets, towers, and battlements.
    — Allix Cott, Architectural Digest, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Athenry Castle Overlooking the Clarinbridge River in County Galway, 13th-century Athenry Castle still retains parts of its medieval walls, battlements, and decorative stone carvings.
    — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 22 May 2026

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