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Example sentences for "crenelated"

Lexicographically close words:
crematorium; crematory; creme; crenate; crenated; crenellated; crenellations; crenulate; crenulated; creo
  1. The court-house and the prison occupy the site of the ancient château; in its façade are preserved two of the great crenelated towers of the portal, dating from the fourteenth century.

  2. Another double portal to the left gave entrance across the old fosse once fed by the waters of the Seine, to the prison fortress itself, with its eight tall blackened towers, each divided into five floors, and its crenelated ramparts.

  3. Beyond the desert waste, lay the enemy's entrenchments--earthworks strengthened with gabions and trunks of trees, and here and there crenelated with the embrasures for their batteries.

  4. Between the circles the ducks are repeated, facing a shield enriched with rows of the crenelated pattern surmounted by a vine.

  5. There is a border or guimp, Persian in character, in which are small crosses surmounting repetitions of the crenelated pattern found in Assyrian ornament.

  6. The cathedral itself still remains unachieved as to completeness, but its tourelles, its vaulting, its buttresses, and its crenelated walls are most impressive.

  7. The crenelated fortress-church replaced, in the XII century, one destroyed by Saracens.

  8. The hardy outpost of Dol, in the north, has stood many a siege, fought many a battle, and its church walls are crenelated where they face the city ramparts.

  9. From one turreted buttress pile to the other was maneuvered a crenelated gallery, and originally the passage communicated with the bishop's palace.

  10. The windows are square or Tudor-arched, with stone mullions and transoms of the Perpendicular style, and the walls terminate in merlons or crenelated parapets, recalling the earlier military structures.

  11. The wind moaned about the crenelated turrets; sentinels of the Pisans stood everywhere, alert for ambush.

  12. On all sides Corinthian columns, plain or fluted, little towers with crenelated tops, and a mass of kiosks meet the eye.

  13. Numberless Hindu temples, known always by the tower of crenelated smaller towers tapering to the largest and crowning one, are seen behind and in between the palaces.

  14. It is a veritable church militant, for from its great crenelated tower one may pass by an underground vaulted gallery to and from Fort Lagarde.

  15. Here and there is an isolated mass of rock, a round watch-tower, or a ruined fortress, still possessing its crenelated walls to give an attitude of picturesqueness.

  16. In the purple background are the Pyrenees, setting off the crenelated battlements of walls, towers and donjon in genuine fairy-land fashion.

  17. All roads leading to Foix give a long vista of its towered and crenelated chateau sitting proudly on its own little monticule of rock beside the Ariege.

  18. It stood seventy-five feet high, with a diameter of ten feet; and the crenelated platform at the summit was reached by a winding staircase.

  19. The former residence of Jacques d'Amboise is enclosed on the side of the Rue des Mathurins by a high crenelated wall.

  20. It follows the best Gothic traditions of its time, and its crenelated walls and towers, the latter now unroofed, are perfect of their kind.

  21. The city, a collection of old houses dating back to the Middle Ages and rising in tiers one above the other upon the enormous mass of granite that is crowned by the abbey, is separated from the sands by a lofty crenelated wall.

  22. The sun cast ruddy tones upon the old crenelated granite church, perched on its rocky pedestal.

  23. There behind strong walls a terrace looks from a crenelated parapet over the descending sunset plains, a prospect as fair as any in all Italy.

  24. They are constructed upon a solid foundation of stone masonry resting upon concrete, while the walls themselves are built of a solid core of earth, faced with massive brick: the top is paved with tiles, and defended by a crenelated parapet.

  25. As the party advanced in the valley, in the far distance the crenelated outlines of two other similar and parallel walls appeared, situated also upon the crests.

  26. We soon regain the main road and pass Lulworth Castle but a little way from the village--a massive, rectangular structure with circular, crenelated towers at each corner.

  27. The fortifications of Tangkoo consisted of a long semicircular crenelated wall, three miles in length, terminating at both ends on the banks of the river.

  28. The building, F, part of the old Roman construction, crenelated at the top, might hold out for some time.

  29. The second made a gap in the crenelated walls of the chapel, the intention being to get possession of the palisade E.

  30. On the eastern side, the aqueduct which brought water to the city followed the vallum, and was crenelated (vide A).

  31. To knot and make the rope secure around the crenelated apex of the tower was but the work of a moment.

  32. At length, through a narrow cleft between the hills, Sir Richard caught a welcome glimpse of high, square-built and crenelated towers.

  33. The handsome narthex, the summit of which is crenelated like the tower, is the simplest and noblest to be found in Galicia, and is really beautiful in its original severity.

  34. Two massive square towers, crenelated at the top and pierced by a few round-headed windows, flank the western front.

  35. Blind windows, similar in structure to the portal, occupy the second body of the facade, and are surmounted in their turn by a simple row of inverted crenelated teeth, showing in their rounded edges the timid use of the horseshoe arc.

  36. The plan shows a crenelated enclosure, resembling the walls of a great Babylonian palace or temple, such as have been found at Telloh, Warka, or Mukayyar.

  37. On one side, below, is a fortified enclosure with crenelated walls of the type we have described, and within it a lion and a vase; below this another fort, and a bird within it.

  38. The walls of this tomb are crenelated like those of the early Babylonian palaces and the forts of the Northerners, already referred to.

  39. In the illustration of the Shûnet ez-Zebib the curved line of crenelated wall, following the contour of the hill, should be noted, as it is a remarkable example of the building of this early period.

  40. Here again we see the same crenelated walls of the Northern towns, and there is no doubt that this slate fragment also, which is preserved in the Cairo Museum, is a monument of the conquests of Narmer.

  41. Opposite, about ten feet distant, ran an immensely high stone wall, crenelated on the top, and over that he could catch a glimpse of the blue May sky.

  42. But you noticed the crenelated wall: that is the secret.

  43. Crenelated battlements are as old as Pompeii, so it is doubtful if the feudality of France did much to increase their use or effectiveness.

  44. It is not a grand structure, but it is perfect of its kind, with its crenelated facade and its sturdy arcaded towers curiously placed midway on the north wall.

  45. It had four great towers, crenelated and machicolated, after the best Gothic fortresses of the time.

  46. The streets and houses shrink into a narrower limit, bounded by a line of bastions, with crenelated towers at intervals, and eight gates each with its watch-tower and drawbridge and portcullis.

  47. These shops were built up against the crenelated wall that surrounded the Parvis until the quarrel between canons and bourgeois pulled them down in 1192.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crenelated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.