Example sentences for: walled

How can you use “walled” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • On my way out of town, I drive through a fold in time,a tunnel through the history of shopping:boarded-up storefronts on the narrow commercial streets,the old strips and plazas with a muffler shop or a chicken fryer left,and larger sites--a five-and-dime blown out into a warehouse,fast-food shops, all local chains now,with their scratchy speakers and pot-holed drive-thru lanes;then the first real malls, big as aircraft carriers, low and blocky,their outlying coffee shops and two-screen theaters like escorts;at last a quieting stretch, the freeway growing wallsand the walled tracts all around nestled in their names--The Willows, Hunt Club Crossing, Hidden Acres--their malls planted, soft-colored, smoothly designed,broad single lumps surrounded by asphalt prairie,distant and unobtrusive as buttes.

  • The Tang clan’s earliest walled village was Lo Wai, which also has its defensive wall intact and is entered by a narrow gate.

  • It is a walled rectangular island within a massive moat wide enough for naval engagements.

  • The trip telescopes history, from the modern capital through the outskirts where donkey carts and cargo-carrying bicycles share the road, past farms where nothing seems to have changed for centuries, to a harsh mountain range where nearly one million workers walled in an empire.

  • By the end of the 15th century England held only a small area around Dublin, walled off from the Norman inner city and known as the Pale, with the Irish themselves outside.


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