Sentence examples for crenelation from inspiring English sources

Pam Elliott, Wheeler Real Estate (203) 656-6538, www.wheelerrealestatect.com TAXES: $9,450 PROS: Built in 1940, this renovated home offers a charming alternative to the usual colonial design, with gothic-inspired features like rooftop crenelation and arched windows and doorways.

One shouldn't look for modesty in a business that dubs itself a castle, especially when it's housed in a low-slung single-story affair made of wood, not stone, without a crenelation in sight.

We lock the gates behind us, admiring for a moment the crenelation of razor wire and a shed piled high with salt.

The majestic crenelations of the fortified tower are simply filled in, the whole thing swamped by a cheap curtain-wall glazing system.

Castlelike crenelations running along the roofline and a chubby turreted tower of a "feudal character" lent a "certain rudeness" to the work, according to Appleton's Dictionary of New York of 1886.

THE middle ages broke out all over Brooklyn around 1890, when George Ingram churned out medieval-style police stations like a ticket blitz; crenelations, spires and parapets made them redoubts of order in a changing city.

A few couples roamed the ramparts, peering through the crenelations as Ms. Gonçalves filled me in on the history of the town and the structure, the largest and best-preserved castle in the Algarve.

He studies the effect the voice has on his limbic system, becomes a scientist of sound: the "profound interior configuration of the body, the subtle crenelations of lung and diaphragm and sinuses, the delicate architecture of the airways; all of which combine to produce that aspect which is last noted but finally most determinant of one's overall feelings about a person:... the voice".

But this one is full of delights: the off-center half-timbering on the upper section, the irregular crenelations at the roof, the slight chamfer at the corner.

In 1893 The New York Herald published a sketch of the proposed gate, four stories high, with a peaked roof, crenelations and a fortified air; a central archway ran through the middle of the $50,000 design.

There may have been no lonely legionary accustomed to standing on it and looking fearfully north — indeed, no parapet, no  walkway along the top, and no crenelations, much of which are archeological conjectures.