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Example sentences for "high walls"

  • It stood in the fairest place of all the forest, and was enclosed of high Walls battlemented, and within were fair-windowed halls.

  • Thitherward goeth he and draweth nigh the castle and seeth it compassed about of high walls, and he seeth the entrance of the castle far without.

  • Fields of ripe grain stretched away on either side of the line, interspersed with groves of trees or dotted with villages surrounded by high walls, significant of the continual insecurity of life and property in this debatable land.

  • On the long ridge of the lofty summits of its hills the slated roofs and high walls of European buildings outlined against the sky, and we know that we are nearing Hong Kong.

  • We passed through a covered porch, guarded by a pair of heavy gates, into a garden surrounded by high walls: went along the stone-paved paths, up some steps into a suite of rooms on the north side of the garden.

  • This is protected on one side by the river, on the three other sides by high walls.

  • The windowless twenty-feet-high walls, in addition to ensuring privacy, enabled the occupant on closure of the massive doors to convert his house into a place of defence.

  • We can look down from the hill into this garden, even though it is surrounded by high walls.

  • We stop the rickshaw man and pass through several courtyards enclosed by high walls.

  • The tracks were in all kinds of unaccountable places: in gardens enclosed by high walls, and up on the tops of houses, as well as in the open fields.

  • The mansion was detached and surrounded by high walls.

  • Here also I saw outside the town a great number of very large gardens surrounded by high walls.

  • Most of these palaces are situated in gardens surrounded by high walls; they seldom join one another, for which reason there are but few imposing squares or streets.

  • They are composed of high walls of earth, within which are small dilapidated huts and barracks.

  • There were rooms opening into a verandah or corridor on two sides of the patio, the other sides being enclosed by high walls.

  • In the back wall was a doorway leading to a mule-shed and stable-yard, also enclosed by high walls.

  • In the same square with the Coliseo de gallos is the tennis-court, a spacious area, surrounded by high walls.

  • It consists of two gardens, very prettily planted, and inclosed by high walls.

  • On this artificial ridge stood the temple, enclosed by high walls, rising in the form of an amphitheatre.

  • It was a house surrounded by high walls on every side.

  • The house is surrounded by high walls on every side.

  • As the day waned they saw through their port-hole a mass of high walls, somewhat overtopped by a great round tower.

  • The courtyards are intersected by high walls into a multitude of little oblong walks.

  • The arrested Representatives entered into the courtyard of the barracks, a huge parallelogram closed in and commanded by high walls.

  • Footnote 41: A passage or inclosure surrounded by high walls is called kisombi by the Hopi.

  • The eastern wall of this kiva is the side of the cave, and the whole was inclosed by high walls.

  • As a rule rooms of the second type are not subterranean, but are commonly surrounded by high walls, being entered by a doorway at one side.

  • We got out, and he took us up a narrow and filthy lane between two high walls.

  • We seemed to be in a very spacious garden, surrounded by high walls on all sides.

  • Squabbling and cantankerous, rather absurd and petty, the Legations are spinning their little threads, each one hedged in by high walls in its own compound and by the debatable question of the situation politique.

  • It was not long before we saw in the distance many groups of people clustering round a big building surrounded by high walls.

  • Illustration: Rosalie never left the park, which was surrounded by high walls] Rosalie never left the park, which was surrounded by high walls.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "high walls" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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