"wall" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Its walls had withstood weapons and weathers for fourteen hundred years.
- "The wall withstood the attack and saved the lives of people who were in the trade center," he said.
- 'Who can tell me how the outer wall withstood the night's attacks?'
- No wall can permanently withstand the desire for freedom.
- Its walls can withstand great impact, at no less than 3m thick at any point.
- These walls will never withstand that kind of pounding.
- Many succeeded; however, the wall could not withstand the force of the fleeing Juventus supporters and collapsed.
- "If you think the wall should have withstood that, then blame the structural engineer who built it."
- The strong earthquake of 1894 ruined the building (only two walls withstood the quake), which was then abandoned.
- The city's walls, some 16 km in circumference withstood the siege for three months.
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