"defensive" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- These new barracks began with four walls of the same bricks he was building the defensive bulwarks with; heaped up against them, pounded earth, reaching to the rafters.
- We ran breathlessly along the tops of the walls, still several tower lengths' distant from the defensive bulwarks over the gates, watching their approach in despair.
- After the game, The Evening Independent wrote: "Rehor with his 256 odd pounds bowled over the visiting linemen and formed a defensive bulwark that couldn't be budged."
- However, with waters that Lei Man had previously diverted to surround and protect Lang Prefecture serving as a defensive bulwark, Lang's defenses were initially holding.
- In Cilicia, only Mopsuestia remained in Arab hands as a defensive bulwark to protect Antioch.
- The wall stood another three cubits above the pier surface, not really a defensive bulwark, but a physical barrier that declared to the sailors on the ships that Nylan was foreign territory.
- He built defensive bulwarks some distance from the Xin outpost of Shuofang (朔方, roughly modern Ordos, Inner Mongolia).
- -A few miles southwest of Ibiza Town is the medieval church of Sant Jordi, combining gracious arches with no-nonsense defensive bulwarks.
- And some call themselves an essential defensive bulwark against a possible Arab attack from the east.
- The three forts built by Zhang had gates that did not have a secondary gate inside the primary gate, and also did not have defensive bulwarks.
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