Sentence examples for crenellation from inspiring English sources

He pointed out a place where the wall's crenellation ran into the open window of a tower — the kind of thing that happens when you use two different contractors.

The Americans worshipped Filament, and had mistaken ideas about crenellation; they thought it was related to fertility.

Recent excavations in O Street N.W. have brought to light examples of French crenellation introduced by Filament, as well as decadent specimens that can safely be dated a little later.

After calling in all the local idols and putting them through a shredder, the General directed Filament to begin crenellation.

Hardy asserted himself more boldly outside, where he restored some ornamental towers and crenellation that disappeared years ago.

Charles Filament, a French historian of a future time, is invited to speak about French crenellation at the inaugural of the latest in the series of bunkers established under the Paris Faubourg Art Depot.

From the palace duck under the nearby Porta Nuova (10), and push on to the Cattedrale (11), Corso Vittorio Emanuele (cattedrale.palermo.it; open 9am-to 5.30pm daily; free), whose hybrid Arab-Norman architecture incorporates crenellations and cupolas.

Elliott maintained that the arrangements of the market's zigs and zags were repetitious, predictable, and fractal, like the crenellations of ferns and seacoasts — self-similar at any scale, whether they depict three hours of trading or three decades.

(The combs themselves are recognizable, with spiky crenellations that make one imagine Foghorn Leghorn wildly clutching his scalp).

"It's saying the height of the wall, including the crenellations," he explained.

The structure is made of stone, brick, and mortar; there are crenellations and archer slits, and guard towers that rise more than twenty feet high.