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Meanings of crenellate in English
Embattled.
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Examples for "embattled"
Examples for "embattled"
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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.
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Look at what Mark Thompson, embattled director-general, has added to that case.
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Here's everything you need to know about the embattled former Virgin CEO.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A castellated diadem sat rock steady on her pillar of pale hair.
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We enter the great enclosure under the lofty arch of the castellated gateway.
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For twenty miles in sight are the battlemented cliffs of the Palisades.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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It was from that wall... from its crenelated parapets and battlements that Mr.
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The house was a tiny imitation of a castle, with crenelated parapet and tower.
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From this central block rose the twin towers, ancient, crenelated, and pierced with many loopholes.
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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.
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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.
Usage of crenellate in English
1
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.
6
The crenellated surface of an asteroid appeared on their port camera-meters away-thenvanished.
7
Bellis saw Captain Myzovic climb the steep streets toward New Crobuzon's crenellated embassy.
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Spectre horsemen, pale with dust, anonymous in the crenellated heat.
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From this central block rose the twin towers, ancient, crenellated, and pierced with many loopholes.
10
Oh, Vienna had a traditional pre-Engineer wall: a thin curtain of masonry, crenellated on top.
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The landing itself was a narrow slab of gray stone surrounded by a crenellated barricade.
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The walls are crenellated, and strengthened by numerous buttresses.
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And rearing out of the centre was the dusty brown crenellated spike of Skygarden Tower.
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They took it, and found themselves on a winding track that followed the crenellated coastline.
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Andy Sanders stood behind one of these crenellated trunks.
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Minarets and spires and chimney stacks and crenellated openings warred with one another for space.
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