"stand" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In a pinch, against anything bigger than a platoon, the best Dixon could hope for was a valiant last stand.
- Between the dwarves' valiant stand and Alustriel's firestorm, the enemy forces were sliced apart.
- Meanwhile, his initial contingent of knights fought their way down to the gate itself, where the Arabs made a valiant stand.
- Last year Simsbury made a valiant stand to stem the tide of radical growth by imposing a year's moratorium on zoning changes and new building construction.
- He cheered the valiant stand of Garrant's men, and finally breathed again when they were relieved by the charging cavalry.
- A valiant stand by local volunteers of old men and boys, with help from surrounding counties, gathered almost a force of nearly 1,000, which halted the 5,000 well-armed troops.
- She quickly discerned that her friends had made their valiant stand behind the small counter at the back of the hall.
- The Indians drove from their own 23-yard line to the Cornhusker one-yard line before a valiant goal-line stand by Nebraska denied Stanford the end zone.
- The troops of Doncastle made a valiant stand at the King's Gate.
- "Stranger, go tell the Spartans that here we lie, obedient to their command," Caesar read off the stone commemorating that valiant last stand.
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