Sample Sentences for
rampart
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  • There's a watchtower on either side of the main gate, and other towers all the way around the rampart wall.  (source)
    rampart = a wall built for defensive purposes
  • The bulk of the rampart holds her in its breadth.†  (source)
  • A thick stone parapet protected the outer edge of the rampart, reaching as high as Sansa's chin, with crenellations cut into it every five feet for archers.†  (source)
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  • Earthen ramparts rose almost to the tops of the surrounding trees—a hundred feet at least.†  (source)
  • He looked terrified as he stared into Dumbledore's face, which was even paler, and rather lower than usual, as he had slid so far down the rampart wall.†  (source)
  • There is no sound other than the rhythmic clink of armor as the legionnaires patrol the ramparts.†  (source)
  • Johnston did stand like an iron rampart in the mountains above Dalton, one hundred miles away.†  (source)
  • Except our feelings stood around us like ramparts, and we could not unknow what we knew.†  (source)
  • Against the new masonry I re-erected the old rampart of bones.†  (source)
  • O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?†  (source)
  • Then I turned to see how much of our rampart remained.†  (source)
  • On the northern margin of the Alaska Range, just before the hulking ramparts of Mt. McKinley and its satellites surrender to the low Kantishna plain, a series of lesser ridges, known as the Outer Range, sprawls across the flats like a rumpled blanket on an unmade bed.†  (source)
  • I turned off Rampart, one of three major streets surrounding the Quarter, and parked.†  (source)
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