How to Use rampart in a Sentence

rampart

noun
  • Above, the steep rampart of the mountains was swept by veils of rain and sun.
    — Peter Heller, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Jan. 2024
  • From the ramparts, a green patchwork of vineyards and truffle-rich forests stretch as far as the eye can see.
    — Mary Winston Nicklin, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Visitors can walk its ramparts and some of its secret tunnels.
    — Maureen Orth, Town & Country, 11 Jan. 2013
  • Up close, the structure, which will cost as much as $40 million, looks less like a dune and more like a rampart.
    — Christopher Flavelle Tailyr Irvine, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2022
  • And yet, Francis is not sounding the alarm or calling the faithful to the ramparts.
    — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 27 May 2018
  • Small holes sized precisely for rifle muzzles had been made in the patchwork rampart.
    — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2016
  • Over time, spatter can build up, welding to form walls or barriers of rock known as spatter ramparts.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 25 May 2018
  • Yet from the ramparts of Castello di Procopio, all that fades away.
    — Laura May Todd, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2025
  • The word rampart, griffin pointed out, means a barrier, and in certain ways, the street was just that.
    — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 14 Jan. 2021
  • But then Achilles fought, leaving aside personal slights to charge the ramparts of Troy.
    — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 1 Aug. 2017
  • The mind conjures up images of caravanners resting in the cool shade of palm trees at the foot of the ramparts.
    — National Geographic, 1 May 2016
  • To the south stood the ramparts of the Trans-Alai mountains, a spur of the Pamirs, armored with snow.
    — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2019
  • The land slopes down from that house with a series of broad grassy terraces embellished by long stretches of stone and brick balustrade atop stone ramparts.
    — Mark David, Robb Report, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Cannons ringed the whole thing, bristling from both the top ramparts as well as through openings in outer brick walls down close to and facing the water.
    — Andrew Boyd, NOLA.com, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Ravari first had to dig a vast ditch and an earth rampart around his 2,600-hectare farm, to keep out sheep, cattle, and wild pigs.
    — Marc Champion, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020
  • Mickey has risen from humble stock to the ramparts of wealth, having lost every grain of humility along the way.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2020
  • In this sense, Welles’s songs are far better suited to social media than to the stage, to say nothing of the ramparts.
    — Mitch Therieau, New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2026
  • The only difference is now the American troops are coming to the ramparts for maybe the first time.
    — WSJ, 18 June 2017
  • The defenders within the castle went mad with rage and took their prisoners and ripped them limb from limb on the castle ramparts.
    — William Gurstelle, Popular Mechanics, 11 Apr. 2019
  • Refugees fleeing from the Mongols also sought shelter within the city’s ramparts.
    — Nicholas Morton, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2023
  • There were openings in the upper walls, accessible to the men on the ramparts, called embrasures, through which archers could shoot.
    — William Gurstelle, Popular Mechanics, 10 Aug. 2017
  • Its rampart soars up right on our border with Nevada and defines the east side of the Owens Valley.
    — Paul McHugh, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The 18th-century ramparts encircling the city are free to climb and boast dramatic ocean views.
    — Livia Hengel, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
  • The medieval ramparts ripple over the hill like the tail of a mighty dragon, and the panorama swings around from the sparkling sea and port to the sunbaked city and mountains.
    — Lisa Johnson, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Nov. 2023
  • It is comprised of two ramparts, one around the exterior of the village, and a small one situated at the center of the mound.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Before 911 diehards take to the ramparts, there are a few points worth noting from our time with the E-Hybrid sedan.
    — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 8 June 2018
  • As evidence for this, ramparts dating back around 3,000 years have been unearthed around the cathedral.
    — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 24 May 2024
  • Our stroll began outside the medieval gate—only residents can drive through the stone ramparts—and ended with an aperitif on the square.
    — Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 8 May 2026
  • The victims of prejudice and inequality are always the best guardians of the ramparts that sustain those miseries.
    — Cressida Leyshon, New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2025
  • And on Saturday her rampart was the front porch of a vacant and badly damaged house in Waverly.
    — Ian Duncan, baltimoresun.com, 19 May 2018

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