embrasures in a sentence

Examples

1. At some point, the battery's parapet with embrasures was demolished.
2. By 1522, the fortifications were being modernized with the construction of embrasures.
3. There were embrasures for eight guns, although only five were ever fitted.
4. Small bunkers with thick walls were set up with three embrasures towards the front.
5. In the same period, it acquired embrasures.
6. In the sides of the tower were embrasures to sweep the ditch with fire.
7. Parke waited until nightfall to open the embrasures for his guns behind the dunes.
8. Shelves of wood or concrete are fitted below the embrasures in the principal direction.
9. The 100-millimeter guns were in unprotected hull embrasures on the upper deck.
10. He then threw his body at the embrasure.