"put" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Residents are not putting sandbags around their homes; businessmen are not taping their store windows to protect them from being shattered by the concussions of mortars or artillery.
- We've connected it to a metal ring that clamps tightly around her forehead and put sandbags on either side of her to keep her from moving.
- There is no point in putting sandbags here.
- "When I left, we were holding the water at bay, putting sandbags by the door," said Mr. Gamez, a 43-year-old Councilman from Tipitapa.
- "It was so bad that they put sandbags in the Holland Tunnel, saving the city itself from floods," he said.
- A6 Peacekeepers Fortify Positions French troops put sandbags and barbed wire around their positions in the northern sector of Mitrovica after 16 comrades were wounded in an outbreak of ethnic violence.
- Put sandbags around him to keep him from moving accidentally.
- Okay, we'll put sandbags around it, too.
- "I had a couple of servants put sandbags around it."
- Freshly dug machine-gunpits surround the police and army stations, and aid agencies are putting sandbags around their offices.
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