How To Use Crenellation In A Sentence
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In his piece about Awana, he writes amusingly about taking a pee and I couldn't help but recall the moment when the great man, he of pulchritudinous prose, goitred with soliped leitmotifs, crenellation and spittle, took one next to mee.
AA . . . On The Piss
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The thirteenth-century Rocca Scaligera, with its elegant crenellations and swan-filled moat, is so photogenic that it might have been built by the local tourist board.
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You will notice the buttresses, the porch, the crenellations on the walls, and the four light mullioned windows.
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Bullets started whizzing past him, pinging off the cast-iron crenellations.
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS
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Consulting a copy of "The Chinese Automobile Driver's Book of Maps," Mr. Hessler decides to follow the printed crenellations of the Great Wall west into the arid heartland of the country, picking up hitchhikers as he goes.
China's Long, Strange Road Trip
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You will notice the buttresses, the porch, the crenellations on the walls, and the four light mullioned windows.
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The garden was in a yard about thirty meters by sixty, surrounded by the towering curtain wall with inward-facing crenellations.
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Mr. ROBERT STONE (Author, "Fun with Problems"): (Reading) Hampton County locked them down in a 19th century brick fortress of a jail, a penitential fantasy of red brick keeps and crenellations.
Fiction, Long And Short, For Summertime Escapes
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Two of the torches that illumined the battlements had been doused there, swathing the crenellations under a cloak of darkness.
THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD
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Behind the gatehouse, around the monastic cloister, there were similar conversions, the whole façade being topped with a bombastic row of crenellations (battlements).
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Formerly a school, built when Victoria was monarch, it has walls of beige bricks with each corner decorated with stone quoins and topped with crenellations adorned by an abundance of stone finials.
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To my mind, cabernet sauvignon, as long as there's only a bit of it, interferes less with the architecture of sangiovese, merely strengthening the foundations rather than filling inthe crenellations as merlot does.
Wine: The mysterious world of chianti classico
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The sound of the clarinet, in contrast, is depicted by a sound wave that looks like the crenellations on a castle, which leads to its more closed sound, compared to the sharp note of the violin.
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The sound of the clarinet, in contrast, is depicted by a sound wave that looks like the crenellations on a castle, which leads to its more closed sound, compared to the sharp note of the violin.
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It's a gargantuan iron construction that weighs several hundredweight, and incorporates all sorts of spikes and crenellations.
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It had crates piled against it on the inside to serve as sentry stands, and makeshift crenellations atop for better protection of the archers that stood watch.
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The towers stood proudly with flags billowing out and the crenellations were perfectly spaced like it was from a picture out of a fairy tale.
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The east wing had crumbled, taken on the appearance of a Victorian folly, its crenellations the result of depredations of rain and wind.
A TROUT IN THE MILK
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At dawn Amarantha sat among the crenellations in the lee of her tower, eating porridge and berries she barely tasted.
The Urchin’s Dark Kite « A Fly in Amber
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She and Tabitha ran hand in hand about the enclosure, studying the façades, the gargoyles, the crenellations, all that architectural ostentatious crap.
Crossed
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Crenellations (merlons) on the perimeter of the roof were repaired or rebuilt.
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Tiered on the surrounding hills rose terracotta-roofed buildings surmounted by the beige crenellations of a castle.
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These are strictly known as crenellations and gave defenders something solid to hide behind when they were not firing out from the gaps in between the stone battlements.
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They looked deserted, stark against the sky with snow sitting untouched on windowsills and the crumbling crenellations.
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The two buildings have since been linked together and now feature a bright yellow exterior with turrets and crenellations designed by a Portuguese architect to resemble a medieval palace from his homeland.
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The sperm whale, a toothed mammal whose lower jaw resembles a vast surfboard with peaked crenellations at its edges, has been found at 3000 metres.
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You will notice the buttresses, the porch, the crenellations on the walls, and the four light mullioned windows.
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Habib Saadi sat within one of the crenellations of the thick walls staring through a pair of binoculars.
WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
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Just below the machicolated parapet there are traces of the older crenellations.
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He nods ominously towards the granite crenellations.
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Its panels creating a pattern of crenellations reminiscent of what one might find in a medieval fortified town in northern Italy.
