"defensive" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- There is still an unchecked blaze inside the defensive barricade.
- Saddam's defensive barricade collapsed; in less than 48 hours of fighting, the city fell and 23,000 Iraqis surrendered to the Iranians.
- Few folk remained on the wall when the second volley roared in, for they were engaged in tending wounded, in battling flames, and shoring up defensive barricades.
- Longbowmen were vulnerable to attack until their defensive barricade was complete, as happened, for example at Patay in 1429.
- The wreckage would be a navigational hazard, but perhaps Agamemnon and his cymeks could use them as part of a defensive barricade.
- Abulurd had commanded the guardian fleet for the better part of a year already, making sure Omnius did not break through the defensive barricade.
- The United States Cavalry remaining at Milk Creek were in disarray, corralled with most of their animals dead and being used as defensive barricades.
- The HEPM portrays hospitals as having multiple operational defensive layers outfitted with essential elements necessary to maintain key defensive barricades (Cook & O'Connor, 2005; Reason, 2000).
- He and Pawnbroker were piling corpses into defensive barricades.
- In response, defensive barricades and earthworks were hastily thrown up; and a series of gun forts were constructed along the south coast to protect key harbours such as Portsmouth.
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