Example sentences for: watchtowers

How can you use “watchtowers” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • What you can see are the lovely grounds of the East Garden, the moat and massive stone ramparts, and those few examples of classic Japanese architecture — gates, bridges, armories, and watchtowers — that have survived since the 17th century.

  • The earthen foundations of the wall and watchtowers, as well as much of the brick-work, are original, most of it 300 to 500 years old, although extensive remodeling and fresh materials have been added.

  • Originally a Roman settlement, Estepona preserves the remains of Moorish fortifications and watchtowers, an 18th-century parish church, and an expressionistic bullring, a startling piece of modern architecture which is beginning to look rather worse for wear.

  • Its stairways and watchtowers resemble those crumbling edifices one can only glimpse from Badaling, Mutianyu, and Juyongguan.

  • Prehistoric man dotted the island with his mysterious cone-shaped nuraghi houses and watchtowers before it was colonized by Cretans, Phoenicians, Carthaginians, and Romans.


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