"compound" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- But frantic construction has been going on, as Afghan laborers have built high-walled compounds and flat-roofed houses from mud and straw.
- Diplomats Are Targets Diplomats also say that they themselves have increasingly become targets of military lawlessness because they are believed to live lavishly behind their high-walled compounds.
- Until last fall, American diplomats working in a high-walled compound in one of this city's more prosperous districts were often made to feel unwanted.
- They drove him 12 hours south, over the Mexican border, into a high-walled compound near here called Casa by the Sea.
- His newspaper, like other independent papers, has its offices in another high-walled compound in the heart of the capital.
- Slowing down, the carrier rattled through a pair of gates and into a high-walled compound.
- The gunmen took the aid workers to a high-walled compound belonging to Ahmed Adley, the commander of the Daud clan's militia.
- Instead of sending them to a separate, high-walled compound, the company places them among the rank and file.
- His family lived a few streets south of our home, in a posh, high-walled compound with palm trees.
- His face muddied and clothes tattered, he rolled right up to the imposing gates of Zhongnanhai, the high-walled compound where China's leaders live, to give his report.
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