| The horses of the dozen riders were lathered, as they galloped across the drawbridge and into the fortress. |
| Upon approaching the castle's wooden drawbridge, Jake's stomach began knotting, twisting up until it hurt. |
| The drawbridge was lowered and the four knights rode into the gatehouse and through the curtain wall of the castle. |
| It had a drawbridge that was not over a moat filled with water, but a chasm that seemed to go to the center of the Earth. |
| The sandbags have been filled, the drawbridge raised and the moat replenished with hungry crocodiles. |
| In the medieval period there was a wide ditch in front crossed by a drawbridge. |
