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The international border was delineated by a 10ft gap between the spruce trees, a single crenellation in several hundred miles of unbroken forest.

From The Guardian • May 13, 2018

Here and there above the broken crenellation of the city's battlements rose dark and slender towers, square and round, marking the places where strong robbers had fortified themselves within the city.

From Via Crucis by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

Very pretty towers can be made of white jam-pots with windows and doors and crenellation of gold paper.

From Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities by Nesbit, E. (Edith)

The King would not grant permission for its crenellation, Renan thereupon disposed of most of the materials and they were used to build the campanile at Chichester.

From Seaward Sussex The South Downs from End to End by Holmes, Edric