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
• 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
• Dressed in jeans and trainers, Mr Kinnear heaved a battlement across the studio.
  — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
• And there were the whimsical battlements of Forest Glen, Md., just a few miles away from Rossdhu.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2018
• 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
• Bronn and Jaime stand on the battlements, looking out over Daenerys’ Unsullied army and Dothraki allies.
  — Danielle Ohl, baltimoresun.com, 28 Aug. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Tudor Revival borrows many elements from medieval design such as twisted chimney stacks, battlements, stained glass, and leaded windows.
  — Micah Walker, Detroit Free Press, 12 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024