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Example sentences for "turreted"

Lexicographically close words:
turquoises; turr; turrer; turres; turret; turrets; turri; turrible; turtle; turtledove
  1. The north-west corner of the palace proper terminated in a turreted tower which contained Queen Mary’s rooms, and this tower, rebuilt by James V.

  2. The armor of the two single-turreted monitors was ten inches thick, and that of the river monitors eight and a half inches.

  3. She could not sink her when she tried to, and when she abandoned her and turned to attack one of the other wooden vessels the little turreted ship was thrown across her path, so that the fight had to be renewed.

  4. The most successful of them was the little Monitor, a flat-decked, low, turreted ironclad, armed with a couple of heavy guns.

  5. Formed like a tower; as, a turreted lamp.

  6. These mollusks have an elongated, turreted shell, composed of many whorls.

  7. A cry of indignation was heard from every turreted castle in the land.

  8. I beg you to respect this name and title, for the Falkensteins are an older race of nobles than the Hapsburgs, and the turreted castle of my ancestors, the counts, is one of the oldest in Germany.

  9. Bellinzona is romantically situated, on a slight eminence, with three castles to defend it, with those square turreted towers and battlements, which remind one involuntarily of the days of the Goths and Vandals.

  10. We walked around its picturesque turreted wall, and rambled through its narrow streets, washed here and there by streams which turn the old mill-wheels lazily around.

  11. Spread beneath it is a blue lake and a smiling plain, and the city, with its bold castellated rock, and its turreted walls half hid in gardens and orchards.

  12. The Mir pressed me to pass the night with him as his guest; but after partaking of his breakfast, I continued my journey, and reached, by sunset, the small turreted stronghold of Beygishni.

  13. Two iron torpedo ships have been completed during the last year, and four of our large double-turreted ironclads are now undergoing repairs.

  14. The five double-turreted ironclads belonging to our Navy, by far the most powerful of our ships for fighting purposes, are also in hand undergoing complete repairs, and could be ready for sea in periods varying from four to six months.

  15. We were soon out of the town, and the carriage turned into a garden that was an imitation of a park, and stopped in front of a turreted house, which tried to look like a chateau.

  16. And yonder, to the left, he saw at the end of an avenue of trees a large turreted chateau.

  17. All round were high and turreted walls, with at the corner a bare square-faced keep, gaunt and windowless, rearing up from a lofty mound, which made it almost inaccessible to an assailant.

  18. A broad moat, a high outer wall turreted at the corners, with a great black keep towering above all--so it lay before them in the moonlight.

  19. The resemblance to Cyclopean masonry has doubtless suggested the name, for it is marked by huge masses of castellated-looking work, with turreted flanks.

  20. Several villages came, indeed, in our way, and near one of them, called Semmering, a large turreted building attracted our attention.

  21. So absorbed was I in my meditation, that I passed my turreted house without noticing it.

  22. There would be plenty of time for me to walk round by my turreted place and back by Hampstead Lane.

  23. From the south-west angle a fine turreted tower rises upwards from the square, and with its copper dome forms a great feature of the Cathedral as one walks up the Strada Carlo Felice.

  24. The 1841 uniform regulations specified such a belt plate for officers of the Corps of Engineers, but with a "turreted castle, raised in silver" rather than the letters "U.

  25. Struck in thin to medium brass, this plate is the familiar turreted castle of the Corps of Engineers so well known today.

  26. The American had his womankind with him, but seemed lonely while they were sketching all day long the old doorways and the turreted corners of the mediaeval houses.


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