How to Use rampart in a Sentence

rampart

noun

• Away to the west stood the great ramparts of the Andes.
  — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Aug. 2019
• Above, the steep rampart of the mountains was swept by veils of rain and sun.
  — Peter Heller, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Jan. 2024
• 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 difference is, the U.S. troops are now coming to the ramparts.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2018
• And yet, Francis is not sounding the alarm or calling the faithful to the ramparts.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 27 May 2018
• 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
• That’s why he’s left banging on the ramparts with an uneven book.
  — Emmett Rensin, New Republic, 16 Oct. 2017
• 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
• 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
• Forcing his way through the rampart of bodies, Goode leapt in the air, arms outstretched, and blocked the first punt of the season for the Blazers.
  — Evan Dudley, al, 1 Sep. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• There are plentiful reasons right now to come to NR’s aid, to join it in the foxhole and the cockpit, to stand with it on the ramparts and at the deck guns.
  — Jack Fowler, National Review, 8 Oct. 2019
• The only difference is now the American troops are coming to the ramparts for maybe the first time.
  — WSJ, 18 June 2017
• The walls were first laid out in the early 12th century and some of the ramparts were damaged in the quake, Al Aoula TV reported.
  — Hamdi Alkhshali, CNN, 8 Sep. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Yes, everyone watched as Ned's head was very clearly severed from his body and placed on a spike on the ramparts of King's Landing.
  — Matt Miller, Esquire, 3 July 2017
• The clip shows Turner on what look like the ramparts of Winterfell, belting out the lyrics to the 2007 hip-hop hit while dancing and hitting a snowball off of the balcony.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Apr. 2019
• Even in drought years, these storms blow in from the Pacific, hit the ramparts of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and dump tens of millions of acre-feet of runoff into the streams and rivers.
  — Edward Ring, wsj.com, 5 May 2023
• 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
• 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
• That same year, the couple also acquired York Castle, in the ramparts of Tangier.
  — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 3 Aug. 2018
• The Monolith Garden Trail is the best of the bunch, a tangled route through dramatic boulder fields and crumbling ramparts of volcanic ash.
  — Roger Naylor, azcentral, 13 July 2018
• 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
• Humpty Dumpty, some say, could be about a cannon that fell off the ramparts around the town it was supposed to be protecting in the 17th century.
  — Eric Bellman, WSJ, 24 Sep. 2017
• Small holes sized precisely for rifle muzzles had been made in the patchwork rampart.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2016

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024