"defender" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The defenders were soaking wet and exhausted, but had held their positions.
- A tough defender, he held in high regard by the club's fans.
- The 82nd defenders held their positions as long as they could, then slowly pulled back.
- The defenders held firm until reinforcements arrived in the afternoon to push back the French.
- When a defender holds the trump ace, he exercises control over the play.
- Thus the long day wore on and still the defenders held their own.
- Seven German defenders held them off before escaping over the wall at night.
- Once more blood and death stalked the walls, but the defenders were holding.
- The defenders would hold the rise for as long as they were able, then fall back several hundred yards to a similar position.
- For yet a second day, the defenders of Arborlon had held.
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