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Example sentences for "wall"

Lexicographically close words:
walkin; walking; walks; walkt; walkway; wallabies; wallaby; wallah; wallahs; wallaroo
  1. One of these came beneath the door straight to my eye, the other two were on the wall (or on a press) obliquely opposite.

  2. As in duty bound, he, with my mother, completed his experiences by going under the wall of waters to the "Cave of the Winds.

  3. The bread and the oil, also the chamber in the wall shall not fail the prophet when he comes in August: nor Donner and Blitzes either.

  4. It was that of a person who had emerged from within; the fact being, though I was not then aware of it, that there was a door in the wall a little farther on.

  5. As far as I remember, the wall at that part is a good deal overgrown with ivy.

  6. I believe I could climb the wall as it is!

  7. Besides, I hope we shall not be so very late after all; once over the wall we can run all the way home.

  8. It's as old as the wall itself, as you can see by the ivy.

  9. So I contented myself with skirting the high wall of the grounds on the side nearer the Manor-house.

  10. Not above half a mile or so to where the wall begins," I replied.

  11. I stood back a little at last, and surveyed the wall from a short distance, and at one spot it seemed to me that there was a slight break in the line.

  12. My heart beat rather faster than usual as we approached the place in the wall whence the unknown man seemed to come out, and for a few minutes our search was unsuccessful.

  13. There are ways and means; the wall isn't so very high after all," and he stepped back a pace or two, and stood regarding it with anxious criticism.

  14. We closed the door in the wall cautiously, for I was rather afraid of its shutting with a spring, and thus debarring us from ever making use of it again.

  15. It mounted from the floor to the wall, from the wall to the ceiling.

  16. Pete lit the candle and steadied it while Grannie cut the stocking from the wall side of the bed-ticking.

  17. And Pete was clambering up the wall by the side of the dairy window.

  18. There was a confused murmur beyond the farther wall of the room.

  19. Outside Ballure House there was a crowd which covered the garden, the fence, the high-road, and the top of the stone wall opposite.

  20. At the other side of the wall the confused murmur had risen to a sharp crackle of many voices.

  21. She hurried through the garden to a side-door in the wall leading to the lane.

  22. Did you stick a piece of dough on the wall at your last baking, Nancy?

  23. In a state of stupor he stood for some time with bis back to the fire and watched his shadow on the opposite wall and on the ceiling.

  24. He was gripping the stable-wall with his trembling fingers, and struggling for composure.

  25. Nothing was there but a whitewashed wall that fenced a sheepfold.

  26. It passed him on the stairs, going by the wall as he went by the rail, with an irresistible down-drive, headlong, heavily.

  27. You could lie with your back to the wall and ate off the floor.

  28. From the other side came the light jingle of a curb chain, and over the wall hovered a white sheet of smoking light.

  29. In a corner under the wall lay the angular wooden lid which is laid by a gravedigger over an open grave.

  30. In a part of the wall still remaining there are fragments of excellent designs in basso-relievo, representing the combat of the Athenians with the Amazons; besides six columns, white as snow, and of the finest architecture.

  31. You shall hear the truth," she gasped, leaning against the wall for support.

  32. I was more than satisfied; and judging by Jackson's countenance, which changed beneath my look to the color of the lime-washed wall against which he stood, he surmised that I was.

  33. A drear, single man's room it was, from wall to wall, despite its fretted ceilings and official pomp of Bramah escritoires and red boxes.

  34. Beneath the southern wall of the Acropolis, near its extremity, was situated the Athenian or Dionysiac theatre.

  35. One side of the place is bounded by the sea, and is always left open for entrance and exit; the other three sides are inclosed with a wall of stones and roots.

  36. Within this wall they build a perfectly smooth and even foot-path some six or eight feet wide, which is used by day as a public promenade, and by night for the back and forward march of the sentinels.

  37. The wall juts out in pointed arches, and pillars, on the sides of which are various grotesque combinations of rock.

  38. And a moment or two later, the four stood, breathless with admiration, in front of the great gates in the high ivy-covered wall I have described.

  39. The new owner enlarged and improved it, and built the high wall which now looked so venerable; for already this was many, many years ago.

  40. There was an arm rack upon the wall of the living-room, an arm rack that had at one time doubtless supported the old flintlocks of the early fur hunters.

  41. It was almost inconceivable, especially when she tried to picture the father, whom she had never known, but who was reputed to be such an intensely human man, so full of the many frailties of a Wall Street gambler.

  42. She staggered back and leant for support against the wall of the barn, and Buck sprang to her side.

  43. She stared straight ahead of her, focusing some trifling detail of the pattern on the wall paper.

  44. He told you that since he had known you he had made a small fortune on Wall Street.

  45. Mebbe that's jest a blank wall without no trail.

  46. On the wall against which this monument is built, feathers are sculptured, forming a canopy.

  47. The air was still and very warm, and the lizards were taking their last peep at the sun wherever they could, climbing up the trunks of the trees and the wall of the house to catch a glimpse of him before he set.

  48. They stood by the wall and looked out silently, without any further effort at conversation.

  49. Accordingly Julius took the things in his hands, and the two went out of the garden by the door in the wall and left it open.

  50. That would be an admission that Wall Street is cashing in on the war.

  51. We don't want to keep 23 Wall waiting, do we?

  52. You'd be surprised how many big Wall Street operators go for that guff.

  53. As for me, I watch the way money and markets move here in Wall Street.

  54. He sat across the glass-topped desk in my Wall Street Office, while Arthurjean Briggs typed demurely in the adjoining office.

  55. You know how to make money in Wall Street, if it wasn't for those damned Roosevelt taxes.

  56. When he was standing there he seemed to make more sense than most things that happen in Wall Street.

  57. And today," I continued, "I received the greatest honor that can come to an American in Wall Street.

  58. If that guy popped off, there'd be dancing in Wall Street and you'd have to shut down the Exchange because the ticker couldn't keep up with the buying orders.

  59. Perhaps the most famous man in Wall Street, in a quiet way.

  60. Tompkins, a Bedford Hills stock-broker with offices in Wall Street, and reported me to the F.

  61. Look at the killing I had made in Wall Street, three million smackers just by using my head.

  62. The wall on one side was lined solid with illuminated tanks containing gold-fish making fishy little zeros with their stupid mouths.

  63. Middle-aged Stock Broker Cleans up in Wall Street, Looks for God.

  64. In the far distance a light had sprung up, and he guessed that Peter had managed to obtain a spark and had lit one of the torches they had been careful to snatch from the wall before they left the upper room.

  65. Then he turned fiercely upon Roland; but that worthy shrank back before his pale face and flashing eyes, and, letting go Peter, fled to the wall and tore down a sword.

  66. Peter received a stunning blow upon the helmet, and, dizzy and sick, was forced to cling to the wall to save himself from falling.

  67. Rapidly the pieces of armour were strapped and buckled on until Edgar stood complete, a wall of shining steel.

  68. Is there no place where a bank at the bottom of the wall will give us a footing?

  69. But could we fling scabbard and rope to the summit of the wall from the distance of the edge of the moat?

  70. Already the water was trickling in between the widening cracks of the masonry and running in tiny streams down the wall to their feet.

  71. Here he rested arms and shoulders on the wall while he paused a moment to listen.

  72. Peter," continued Edgar with breathless energy as soon as their jailers were secure, "place the torch upright against the wall and bend all thine energies to ridding thyself and me of our shackles.

  73. With a shout of pain, for his wrist had been severely twisted, Roland jumped swiftly back out of reach; then, recovering from his surprise, he seized another weapon from the wall and sprang to the attack once more.

  74. They could see nothing save a wall of blackness that rose before them forbiddingly.

  75. Heavier and thicker pieces of wood were then flung on until the exit from the tunnel was ringed about with a veritable wall of fire.

  76. Edgar would have retreated had there been time, but already some of his pursuers were dropping over the low wall behind, shouting in fierce exultation as they saw their prey almost within their grasp.

  77. The very wall seems to shake beneath these mysterious blows.

  78. Strawberry Lake is dammed by landslides which probably came from the west wall of the valley after the glacier melted and left the valley wall over-steepened.

  79. When the valley wall was over-steepened by normal stream erosion, the jumbled material in the lower part broke away and slid down from the steep bare slopes above.

  80. A basalt dike 15 feet wide cuts basalt flows in bluffs north of the road and forms a wall 20 feet high in places; it is visible also across the river.

  81. The robber stopped to save the child, and, seizing the bulldog by the throat, hurled him over the wall into the Liffey.

  82. A wall of sections, where specimens have been collected along thirteen lines east and west through New Hampshire and Vermont; and colored geological profiles behind, on the wall.

  83. At dawn it began, and by midday, do what we could to stay it, the wall was stormed, and leaving nearly a hundred dead and wounded behind me, I was driven to the winding way that led to the summit of the pyramid.

  84. Now as I leaned upon the wall and looked, I saw a man pass up the steps beside me and go on into the shadow of the street.

  85. Leaving it, we came to a door in the wall on which my companion knocked thrice.

  86. Now I mounted on the wall by means of a ladder which was at hand, and answered, 'Speak on, I am the man you seek.

  87. And so as I walked musing I came to a water-gate that opened on to the Guadalquivir, and leaning upon the coping of a low wall I rested there idly to consider the beauty of the night.

  88. And yet for my part death had been almost as welcome, for now Otomie had built a wall between us that I could never climb, and I was bound to her, to a woman who, willingly or no, had stained her hands with sacrifice.

  89. Now some shrieked and fled, and some stood still till they were cut down, but whether they stayed or ran the end was the same, for the gates were guarded and the wall was too high to climb.

  90. Resting on this edging and against the wall of the shaft, was a massive block of stone sculptured with the picture writing of the Aztecs.

  91. On this day was celebrated the feast of Huitzel, that was held with sacrifice, songs, and dances in the great court of the temple, that court which was surrounded by a wall carved over with the writhing shapes of snakes.

  92. His dark figure stood out strongly from the background of the shabby blue wall paper, and the petroleum lamp cast deep shadows in the hollows of his face.

  93. Upon a low shelf on one side, his garments were folded together, while his burnished cuirass and helmet and other arms which he had not worn upon his rapid journey to Ecbatana, hung upon nails in the wall above.

  94. Run along upon the wall till you find a place where you can descend.

  95. Seventeen years had passed since he had interpreted the fatal writing on the wall of the banquet-hall in Babylon in the night when Nabonnedon Belshazzar was slain, and the kingdom of the Assyrians destroyed for ever.

  96. The insufficient gas lamps flickered in the wind as though they would go out, and the few pedestrians who hurried along clung closely to the wall as though it offered them some protection from the moist scirocco.

  97. You might as well talk to a stone wall as preach liberty to these cowards.

  98. Leap down upon the balcony--it is scarce a man's height--follow it to the end and past the corner where it joins the main wall of the garden.

  99. The line pressed on and came at last--what was left of it--through the wall of fire.

  100. He read the simple instructions tacked to the wall over the refrigerator, then lighted the burner.

  101. On another wall were three Scuba regulators, not aqualung types such as the boys used, but the variety that carries a full face mask through which the diver breathes.

  102. It struck the wall of the shed and went through it like paper, smashed into a stud and caromed slightly, so that its trajectory was altered enough to drive it directly at Rick.

  103. Hung along one wall were three full diving suits of expensive make.

  104. To his right he saw the wall of the reef, and once a startled snook shot out of his way.

  105. He swung himself around and put both feet on the wall next to the door, then applied leverage.

  106. I backed against the wall and held my hands out defensively in front of me.

  107. We drove up to the hubs in water, and the lights, instead of showing us the way, only lit up a wall of water ahead.

  108. The cattleman's stone wall eyes were on her now.

  109. She groped her way without a light along the adobe wall till she came to a door which was unlocked.

  110. Half a mile from the point where she had entered the Del Oro the trail crept up the wall and escaped to the mesa above.

  111. A pebble rolled down the face of the wall against which she leaned.

  112. I know that, but Brill couldn't get it through his thick head till a stone wall fell on him and give him a hint.

  113. Phyllis knew that her rescuer was working up the cliff wall with her.

  114. The rugs were in subdued brown tints that matched well the pretty wall paper.

  115. Even without the burden of her weight, the sheer smooth wall rose insurmountable above him.

  116. She swung round in her saddle, to see a wall of water roaring down the lane with the leap of some terrible wild beast.

  117. Was he--could you tell--" She leaned against the rock wall for support.

  118. Both she and Mr. Pain were violent in their greetings, after which they proceeded over to two chairs by the wall where they seated themselves and proceeded to converse in undertones, Mr. Pain drawing on a pair of black kid gloves.

  119. Behind the cart was a wall of uncertain darkness speckled with little flames and alive with half-caught forms and faces and shadows.

  120. He has beaten me twice because I went over their wall in these clothes.

  121. Rancho Nuevo, and entered through the big white wall into an extensive courtyard.

  122. A little fence stakes it in, a bronze tablet is set against the bullet-battered wall of rock.

  123. Those of lesser note who dared yet to live, were taken by platoons to a scarred and dented wall and shot to death.

  124. There were wooden benches along the wall on either side.

  125. Now, since it has been dredged and cleaned of the accumulated filth of centuries, the largest boats may come up to the docks and sea wall along the city's marge.

  126. Most of these arches were wholly filled with a wall of large loose rock.

  127. And the same day at the end of the year, he heard a clamour and a barking of dogs under the wall of the chamber.

  128. At the end of the year the barking of dogs was heard under the wall of the chamber.

  129. The Flodden wall included the Cowgate, which the earlier wall had not done.

  130. Most of the Castle is seen, including the Half-Moon Battery, and part of the south retaining wall of the Esplanade.


  131. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wall" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    arm; balustrade; bank; bar; barrage; barricade; barrier; battle; block; blockade; bluff; boom; boundary; breakwater; breastwork; buffer; bulkhead; bulwark; bumper; coop; crag; cushion; dam; defense; diaphragm; dike; ditch; division; earthwork; embankment; enclose; enclosure; entrench; escarpment; face; fence; fender; fortify; garrison; gate; groin; hedge; hem; immure; jam; jetty; levee; man; mat; midriff; mine; moat; mole; mound; pad; pale; palisade; panel; parapet; partition; picket; precipice; rail; railing; rampart; roadblock; scar; scarp; screen; seawall; separation; septum; steep; stop; wall; work


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    wall paper; walled cells; walled city; walled town