In this nervous city in an embattled country, even small explosions can have a big impact.
When I tried to get to the embattled city on Tuesday evening, I faced repeated warnings not to try it.
It is a valiant, encyclopedic attempt of a star jurist to give voice(s) to an embattled philosophical position.
He has a new book [embattled Rebel] about Jefferson Davis as a commander in chief.
In Illinois, embattled Democratic incumbent Pat Quinn lost his bid for re-election against Bruce Rauner.
This is what I likened to an embattled phalanx, once before.
embattled in the last corner of the world that was left to him.
The printer's boy had faced the embattled oligarchy, and had won.
It is surmounted with an embattled parapet with a turret at each angle.
They are the eyes and ears of the encamped or embattled host.
"under attack," by 1882; earlier it meant "prepared to fight," and (of structures) "fitted with battlements;" past participle adjective from embattle (v.).
