How to Use wall in a Sentence

wall

1 of 2 noun

• She hung posters on the walls of her room.
• A stone wall marks off their property.
• This apartment building has thin walls, and you can hear everything your neighbors say.
• Muscles in the abdominal wall help protect organs.
• This is the breach in the wall that the smugglers have cut through.
  — CBS News, 10 Dec. 2023
• The walls may be white, but this is the proverbial glass house.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 Nov. 2023
• The gates slide shut, and the wall is designed to keep out storm surge.
  — David Schechter, Haley Rush, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2023
• But those close to Belichick see the writing on the wall.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
• Bellinger leaped and crashed into the padded wall just in front of the Houston bullpen to make the grab.
  — Kristie Rieken, Chron, 15 May 2023
• The paint on its walls is peeling, and the red and white sign on its roof is flecked with green.
  — Joshua Mandell, Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
• The logo of the Qassam brigades, the military wing of Hamas, was stuck to a wall.
  — Gal Koplewitz, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2024
• Add one to your gallery wall or buy a set of three to hang above your mantle.
  — Christianna Silva, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Nov. 2023
• In the lower lever of the church is a wall dedicated to telling the story of the bombing.
  — Alaina Bookman | [e-mail], al, 8 Aug. 2023
• Install a slim wall shelf to solve both problems in style.
  — Sarah Yang, House Beautiful, 18 Aug. 2023
• The cookies have high walls and are sunken in the middle, but are not under-baked.
  — Olivia Gyapong, The Arizona Republic, 8 Aug. 2023
• The room had — wait for it — entirely glass walls, no blinds or screens.
  — Tara Bannow, STAT, 18 Jan. 2024
• On the red wall, the spinning chandeliers from the Hitchcock film.
  — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2024
• There was blood on seats, blood on the wall, blood on the emergency exit door.
  — Arelis R. Hernández, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2023
• Kylie debuted the look by posing in front of a white wall as a light shined on her.
  — Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 14 Feb. 2024
• Find a quiet place, such as your car or even behind a wall.
  — Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2024
• Sampling a range of lavender options on each wall is the best way to decide what feels best in the space.
  — Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 May 2023
• The furniture is broken, the walls are stained, the carpets are torn, and the smell is unbearable.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 3 Nov. 2023
• Perhaps the Snoopy and R. Crumb posters on your wall are obscured by clouds of smoke from the bong cradled in your best friend’s lap.
  — Ty Burr, Washington Post, 18 July 2023
• Not after Omar put a kid’s head through the cafeteria wall.
  — Jared Lemus, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2024
• Relatives tried to reach her, but were blocked by gridlocked streets and a wall of fire.
  — Jack Healy, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
• The homer traveled over the outfield wall and landed on the adjacent left-field berm.
  — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 24 Feb. 2024
• The hotel, which is on standard time, does little things like have one wall clock per time zone in the lobby.
  — Terry Tang, The Arizona Republic, 9 Mar. 2024
• Try these timeless, DIY wall art hacks to decorate that pesky blank wall in your home.
  — Claire Hoppe, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Oct. 2023
• Inspectors found a live adult German roach on a wall ramp behind a dish machine, and a dying roach on a storage container.
  — Jacqueline Pinedo, Sacramento Bee, 12 Apr. 2024
• Photographed for Vogue, September 2012 Wall sconces, sometimes referred to as wall brackets, seem to be having a bit of a renaissance, too.
  — Jermaine Gallacher, Vogue, 12 Apr. 2024

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wall

2 of 2 verb

• The ’60s were pretty well walled-off from the Super Bowl era.
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 10 Sep. 2018
• Which is why so many tribes are walling off the outside world.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 5 Apr. 2020
• Lots of mirrors open up the black-painted walled space a bit.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 28 Dec. 2019
• The Celtics spent all five games walling him off in the transition game, and packing the lane in the half-court.
  — David Murphy, Philly.com, 10 May 2018
• And the best part is, it’s not walled off behind a fancy hotel.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2020
• The house next door is bigger and well-kept, walled-off and seeming to hover.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 25 Jan. 2020
• The turning point on the second map, Blizzard World, came when NotE was walled off from the rest of his team.
  — Sean Collins, Dallas News, 9 Feb. 2020
• If a mile of the border is walled off, that’s one less mile the Border Patrol needs to worry about.
  — Dan Crenshaw, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2019
• China largely walled itself off from the rest of the world during covid.
  — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
• From tabletop treats to wall art, wine gifts, and plush pillows, here are the best Mother’s Day gifts for the home over $100.
  — Amanda Lauren, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
• But as internet users have discovered over the past decade, the web is easy to wall off.
  — The Economist, 14 June 2020
• And, right field is smaller and shorter-walled than before 2013.
  — Tom Krasovic, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 June 2018
• Suffice to say, the humans in Snowpiercer could not be more walled off from nature.
  — Peter Opaskar, Ars Technica, 16 Feb. 2020
• Her own nine-bedroom mansion is walled with tall hedges.
  — The Economist, 12 July 2019
• Found high up in the hills of Mount Olympus, the walled and fenced spot takes in sweeping city views from nearly every room.
  — Neal J. Leitereg, The Seattle Times, 28 Aug. 2018
• For the sake of this list, a side’s ability will be judged for classic street 5-a-side: no refs, walls up, keepers in net.
  — SI.com, 27 June 2019
• They are often walled off from the street and gated; a number of these compounds make up a district.
  — NBC News, 24 Mar. 2020
• The studio is now in Lussan, a charming walled village in the Languedoc region of France.
  — Elizabeth Pash, House Beautiful, 26 July 2019
• Levees have walled off floodplains that once allowed the river to spread across five or six miles.
  — Tristan Baurick, nola.com, 15 June 2019
• And the conference center where shots were fired remained walled off.
  — Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 10 July 2018
• Not to mention, there's a shop filled with everything from books and planters to wall art and apparel.
  — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 8 July 2021
• Adding to the grandeur of the Grounds are Jefferson’s serpentine walled gardens tucked behind each of the 10 pavilions.
  — Susan O'Keefe, National Geographic, 29 Nov. 2019
• Ditto howling wind and spray, which are walled out by big wrap-back lenses and wide temples with sticky cladding at the ears.
  — Outside Online, 15 May 2018
• White, wriggly grubs about the size of a human thumb are walling themselves off inside rotting logs.
  — Jason Bittel, National Geographic, 11 May 2018
• Congress wanted to wall off more than double that for the second effort.
  — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 25 June 2020
• To create a small foyer of sorts, Eckley hung silver orb planters that catch the light but don’t completely wall off the space from the rest of the garden.
  — Deanna Kizis, Sunset Magazine, 14 Dec. 2021
• The current thinking is that inflammation helps lead to a buildup of plaque within the blood vessels which the body attempt to wall off from the flow of blood.
  — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 26 June 2018
• It’s walled off on two sides by hillsides dotted with large homes that offer stunning views.
  — John Rogers, The Seattle Times, 26 Mar. 2019
• Diller delighted tourists by renting out pink rooms walled with a lifetime of celebrity photos.
  — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 17 Nov. 2023
• This is about tens of millions of people in the United States who have totally walled themselves off from hearing countervailing facts and opinions.
  — Vulture, 21 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024