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Meanings of battlemented in English
Having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement.
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Examples for "embattled"
Examples for "embattled"
1
In Europe, Britain's fourth-quarter growth data looms large for the embattled pound.
2
Taoiseach Bertie Ahern today offered his support to an embattled Tony Blair.
3
Look at what Mark Thompson, embattled director-general, has added to that case.
4
Here's everything you need to know about the embattled former Virgin CEO.
5
Cape Town's embattled rail infrastructure is in dire need of urgent intervention.
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In the text below, paragraphs in the smallest type have been indented.
2
Passages which Guibert composed in verse are translated into prose and indented.
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Near the tip, the edges were no longer straight, but indented slightly.
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The land was rough and mountainous, and deeply indented by the sea.
5
It is very irregular in form, being indented with numerous deep bays.
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Near it were the castellated dwellings of the keepers, painted different colours.
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The real castle I can see from my own feudal, castellated balcony.
3
The palace of Villanow, which is castellated, now burst upon my view.
4
A castellated diadem sat rock steady on her pillar of pale hair.
5
We enter the great enclosure under the lofty arch of the castellated gateway.
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The tower was topped by a crenellated terrace and conical wooden roof.
2
Its crenellated tower of yellowish stone rises above a stand of date palms.
3
Ten paces across, the tower top was, encircled by a chest-high, crenellated wall.
4
The crenellated roof, with its machicolations, is considered a great success.
5
The crenellated surface of an asteroid appeared on their port camera-meters away-thenvanished.
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America, where there was no cereal-scented wind or castled-skylines or billion-year-old graveyards.
2
I call it the rock on which your faith and mine are castled.
3
High back-lifts, hard hands going at the ball, people being castled a lot.
4
Even a few dreadnoughts lay castled on the broadening waters.
5
He was dreaming of the inspiration of foreign lands,-ofcastled crags and historic landscapes.
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The horizontal light turned their shadows into giants atop the crenelated dunes.
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He saw it at the end of every street-gable-ornamentedand crenelated.
3
It was from that wall... from its crenelated parapets and battlements that Mr.
4
The house was a tiny imitation of a castle, with crenelated parapet and tower.
5
From this central block rose the twin towers, ancient, crenelated, and pierced with many loopholes.
1
The horizontal light turned their shadows into giants atop the crenelated dunes.
2
He saw it at the end of every street-gable-ornamentedand crenelated.
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Engineers were at work, crenelating the walls and houses upon the side threatened with attack.
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From this central block rose the twin towers, ancient, crenelated, and pierced with many loopholes.
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She had crenelated black hair, large black eyes, a Roman nose, and long white teeth.
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A licence to crenellate mansum infra manerium suum was granted by Edward II.
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The tower was topped by a crenellated terrace and conical wooden roof.
3
Its crenellated tower of yellowish stone rises above a stand of date palms.
4
Ten paces across, the tower top was, encircled by a chest-high, crenellated wall.
5
The crenellated roof, with its machicolations, is considered a great success.
Usage of battlemented in English
1
For twenty miles in sight are the battlemented cliffs of the Palisades.
2
The roof is battlemented, and the tracery in the windows is graceful.
3
Between its two heavy battlemented towers are a statue of Edward III.
4
Walled and battlemented forts are to be seen depicted on their monuments.
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Each compartment consists of a large canopy decorated with quatrefoils, and battlemented.
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He found himself on a roof of lead, enclosed by the battlemented parapet.
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For the east front has a battlemented wall, and the battlements are shield-shaped.
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It has battlemented walls and great gates like a fairy-tale city.
9
Donatello, shrinking from the battlemented wall with a face of horror.
10
He saw a frowning, battlemented stronghold away off to the left.
11
One felt, but could not see, the huge battlemented ruin above.
12
It was the oldest building they'd seen: a simple battlemented tower four stories high.
13
In course of time the banquet-house was built and towered aloft, high and battlemented.
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A broad passage ran between the rise of the roof and a battlemented parapet.
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Annas and Caiaphas went out upon the battlemented walls to find out the cause.
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A tunneled, revetted, embrasured and battlemented citadel filled with rusty armor and broken lances.
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