Definition: 1. Any of the vertical sides of a building or room. 2. A long vertical solid structure, made of stone, brick or concrete, that surrounds, divides or protects an area of land. 3. The outer layer of something hollow such as an organ of the body or a cell of an animal or a plant.
Use 'wall' in a sentence:
1. I couldn't hear their conversation through the wall.
2. He could easily vault the wall.
3. He was leaning nonchalantly against the wall.
4. The wall is a little out of the perpendicular.
5. Two guards with sidearms patrolled the wall.
6. Put the piano there, against the wall.
7. There was only a narrow gap between the bed and the wall.
8. I was squashed up against the wall.
9. Every time a train went past the walls vibrated.
10. He drilled through the wall by mistake.
11. The wall collapsed under the strain.
12. I scraped the side of my car on the wall.
13. She managed to scramble over the wall.
14. The bullet embedded itself in the wall.
15. He turned his back to the wall.
16. She yelled at the child to get down from the wall.
17. The boat struck a solid wall of water.
18. On the wall is the family crest.
19. We ducked down behind the wall so they wouldn't see us.
20. She was leaning negligently against the wall.
21. It is fixed on the wall.
22. I sat squeezed up against the wall.
23. I mustn't be late or Dad will go up the wall.
24. He backed against the wall, terrified.
25. Stones were lobbed over the wall.
26. Why doesn't he just knock the wall down?
27. The boys climbed over the wall.
28. He propped his bike against the wall.
29. A shovel was leaning against the wall.
30. Their bikes were resting against the wall.
31. She bounced the ball against the wall.
32. She leaned against the wall.
33. They were pinioned against the wall.
34. The wall gives some protection from the prevailing wind.
35. Don't let this go further than these four walls.
36. I pinned him against the wall.
37. He instructed that a wall should be built around the city.
38. A high wall separated our back yard from the playing field.
39. It's only a low wall ─ about a metre high.
40. The sea wall was not proof against the strength of the waves.
41. She climbed over the wall.
42. Some of his ideas are really off the wall.
43. They built a wall to avoid soil being washed away.
44. The plaster had started to come away from the wall.
45. A number of thin cracks appeared in the wall.
46. Place the table at right angles/ at a right angle to the wall.
47. The paper had fallen down between the desk and the wall.
48. The sign on the wall said 'Now wash your hands'.
49. That noise is driving me up the wall.
50. He crashed his car into a wall.
51. The bullet ricocheted off a nearby wall.
52. It is amazing that not one of them saw the writing on the wall.
53. She hammered the nail into the wall.
54. I knocked the nail into the wall.
55. The bookcase is screwed to the wall.
56. Black walls absorb a lot of heat during the day.
