defensive structure

How To Use defensive structure In A Sentence

• Brick superstructures would no longer do, and it soon became the norm to have double walls with all-stone inner and outer faces, bonded by a rubble fill, with increasingly elaborate defensive structures around the gates.
• As the traceried windows suggest, it was less a defensive structure than a six-storey mansion built on a castle theme – truly an Englishman's home. Gothic architecture in Britain: examples from the era
• The building seems to guard its secrets, the barred apertures underscoring its function as a defensive structure.
• As a defensive structure it would have been continuous, as the river is easily fordable.
• Most have developed all kinds of defensive structures that protect the weakened self against further disorganization.
• Protesters complain that this defensive structure is an outrage - an infringement on free speech that will only incite a siege mentality.
• Either the breach was still defensible with a sufficiently large and determined force, or Chester was not an important defensive structure at the time, or any repair/refortification has not left any evidence. Chester in the seventh century: the fortress defences