"build" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- If I was Iran, I'd be worried and trying to build up my defenses too!
- Despite this, or perhaps because of its negligible economic importance, the Spanish took a long time to build up the island's defenses.
- The French, having received word of an impending attack, had built up their defenses.
- I might as well dive in, before I figure out some way to build up my defenses again.
- "But if my guess is even nearly correct, that won't give us more than one, maybe two days to build up the town's defenses."
- Instead, Gordon built up the town's defenses and prepared for a siege.
- In the first weeks after infection, the virus multiplies at an astonishing rate, until the body builds up its defenses.
- The Japanese hoped to exploit the island's phosphate resources, and to build up their military defenses in the area.
- We have to start building up our defenses again.
- For Washington officials trying to build up the nation's defenses against germ terrorism, the drama has encouraging aspects.
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