"defense" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Despite a heroic defense of the city, its fate was sealed.
- Some grasped their weapons all the more firmly, dreaming of a heroic defense which would push the Russians back, and hold the line.
- "He told me about your heroic defense of Diana and my poor uncle," explained Lillian.
- Their heroic defense of the area was actually a turning point in the Korean War.
- A household guard regiment there put up a heroic defense, but their thin steel cuirasses could not stop the American bullets.
- One morning after twenty days of heroic defense, he ordered repair around his moat was struck by a cannon ball.
- The city, although putting up a heroic defense, was forced to surrender.
- The attack was so violent that despite a heroic defense many were killed by Carib arrows.
- Famagusta, however, resisted and put up a heroic defense that lasted from September 1570 until August 1571.
- Russia's military history is properly seen as one of heroic defense rather than imperial conquest.
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