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Meanings of rampart in English
Synonyms
Examples for "wall"
Examples for "wall"
1
Meanwhile a great wall of sea advanced from the centre of turmoil.
2
We've seen wall to wall coverage of the government during the crisis.
3
But a humanitarian crisis, of course, won't be solved by a wall.
4
I glanced behind me, and of course the great wall was gone.
5
Surgery in similar cases leads to large abdominal wall defects needing reconstruction.
1
The murdered; the royal stronghold is in the hands of the babe-killers.
2
Hospital authorities said 20 people were injured in Kisumu, an opposition stronghold.
3
Soldiers are advancing on the militants' main stronghold area from three directions.
4
Common sense told him the Sheik's stronghold would be higher, not lower.
5
Tripoli, historically a stronghold for Sunni Islamism, is seen as particularly vulnerable.
1
However, the Foundation was the last bulwark in Harry and Wills' relationship.
2
Yes; the best bulwark of faith is a good and honest heart.
3
There was no time to talk -anotherladder hit the stone bulwark.
4
Or look at the FTSE 100 index, that bulwark of solid investment.
5
Katrin had established herself behind the bulwark of a large, rude table.
Usage of rampart in English
1
The rampart is lofty and of many colours, in the rainbow style.
2
And he heard footsteps up on the rampart moving toward his position.
3
The rampart of the Alps stood out more clearly against the sky.
4
The sound fell dead against the rampart of a thousand listening trees.
5
It is rampart, towering and impregnable, between the garden and the desert.
6
The unclimbed, five-mile-long rampart of the South Buttress angled toward the summit.
7
The Highlanders who had scaled the rampart had all been bayoneted within.
8
But under the snow, behind the charmed rampart, slept the living germs.
9
He included his naval camp also within one and the same rampart.
10
Not the Romans, but the people that lived within that flaming rampart.
11
It had four bastions and a rampart three and one-half feet long.
12
At their backs, raised up on a long rampart, was the artillery.
13
Behind us, the towering, frowning rampart-wall of Archimedes loomed against the sky.
14
Two or three light-rays originate from a point on the W. rampart.
15
Its irregular rampart is prominently terraced, and its continuity on the N.E.
16
There's a regular rampart, half the county in fact, before that fire.
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Translations for rampart
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Rampart through the time
Rampart across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common