How to use "wall" in a sentence

It hits my left hand hard against the canyon wall

If I do it right, the ball will stick in the space between the boulder and the canyon wall.

There are several at my feet and some drinking the blood on the canyon wall

Why not find a hard rock and use it to break the boulder? There's one in a hole in the canyon wall above me

I am so certain of this that I take the knife and write the dates of my life on the canyon wall

I am walking alone through the canyon wall

On Thursday, May the 1st, Kyle Ekker was looking at a map of the Canyonlands area on his office wall

My body crashes from one side of the canyon wall to the other

I look at the clock on the wall.

Just before I left, I looked at the dates of my life on the canyon wall

We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them

My office had one wall that was covered in glass

At the end of the cottages was the entrance to Brown's stableyard, and then the long wall of a school

he noticed a man and a woman by the school wall opposite Dutfield's Yard

Near the piece of material, in white chalk on the wall, was a message:

The message in chalk that blamed the Jews was written on the wall of a building in a Jewish area

A minute later he climbed the garden wall and disappeared into the trees.

He walked along this lane for a long time until, to his horror, he discovered his way blocked by a high wall

On the other side there was a wall, higher than a tree

He would be able to climb the wall on his own, but how could he carry Cosette? Suddenly, he had an idea

He tied one end of the wire around Cosette's waist, climbed the wall and, with great difficulty, pulled the girl up behind him

There was a tree on the other side of the wall, and Valjean carried Cosette down into its branches just as the soldiers arrived.

'He must be here!' He heard Javert's voice clearly on the other side of the wall

Marius looked up from the letter and watched the girl moving fearlessly around his room, studying the furniture and the mirror on the wall

Only a thin wall separated him from the family of lost souls in the room next door

As Marius was thinking about the sad life of the family in the next room, he stared dreamily at the wall that separated them

An elderly man and a young girl appeared in the doorway and Marius, still looking through the hole in the wall, could not believe his eyes.

Without another thought, Marius jumped on to the cupboard and looked again through the hole in the wall.

Taking off his boots, he quietly climbed on to the cupboard and looked through the hole in the wall

Finally, Jondrette picked up a large picture that was leaning against the wall, and showed it to M

Leblanc rose and, standing with his back to the wall, looked quickly round the room

He took a piece of brick from the wall, wrapped the piece of paper around it and threw it through the hole into the middle of Thenardier's room.

I'm living with a friend of mine, Enjolras.' Marius then took a knife out of his pocket and scratched his address on the wall - 16, rue de la Verrerie.'

Someone fired a gun and a bullet hit a wall just behind him, but he didn't care.

Marius stood behind an alley wall, hidden in the shadows

More soldiers moved into position at the end of the street, behind the cannon, and started to build a low wall with pieces of broken stone

The next cannonball exploded against the wall at one end of the barricade, killing two men and wounding three.

Some men, including Marius, stayed on the main barricade, while the others built a low stone wall around the door of the wine shop

The rebels fought long and hard to defend the stronghold, but finally they had to withdraw to the low wall outside the wine shop

Valjean lowered Marius to the ground, stood with his back to the wall and looked around him.

He was being followed! He pressed himself against the wall, held his breath and waited

Valjean laid Marius down by the wall, where the floor was dry

Inside the room everything is silent, apart from the slow and constant tick of the small clock on the wall, and the fast, irregular beat of your heart.

You move quietly, your back to the wall

He looks to the right wall and sees what he is looking for: a large wooden box with two doors.

Outside they can see the renovation work: there is scaffolding on the face of the old building, a new wall on the side of it, and three or four workmen are sitting on a bench eating lunch.

They cross the courtyard, and Smith stops to pick up a school tie on the floor by the new wall

And somewhere in the dark Mr Fletcher stops hammering his foot against the new wall

And they lifted him up and carried him to the new wall, which was nearly finished

And for a while he thought that he would die in the deep dark corner behind the wall

So he continues to hammer his foot against the wall.

Sarah considers sitting on one of the seats by the wall of the tunnel, but she is so tired that she thinks that maybe she will fall asleep if she rests.

There was a screen on the wall with a list of places to choose from: places they would never see for real.

Apat chose the jumping machines, as always; Cham got onto a climbing machine and was soon halfway up a wall

One wall of the apartment was just plain white, with a hologram you could turn on and off

One wall was invisible - all you could see was a huge 3D hologram advertising Pod Life.

As they passed the enormous hologram wall by the entrance, Cham put his arm around Sala

"Let me change this horrible illusion." He went to the screen on the wall, and changed the scenery to a sunny park

Through an enormous glass wall, Leti showed them the energy storage area

She watched the hologram advertisement on the wall with its promises of a better future

The building seemed bigger than ever; the hologram wall seemed brighter

The old sofa had been pushed against one wall, but there was no metal table or chairs

Turning a corner, we came to a crossroads and the beginning of a high wall.

A small stone wall across the bay made it into a small harbour

But, every hour of the day, the past made a wall between us.

I looked through the door and saw Ben sitting by the wall

It was very hot, but the sun was hidden behind the wall of fog

Beyond the terrace was a white wall of fog.

Ben shook his head and moved back against the wall

She certainly couldn't share with him her appraisal of the situation: Danny, sweetheart, don't worry about anything you might have heard through the wall

Danny had left it at the far end of the room, beyond the bed, against the wall, and that was where it had stood the last time that Tina had been here

But now it lay at an angle, the base against the wall, the easel itself slanted, chalkboard-down, across a game table

She was about to head for the den when she noticed something odd about four framed eight-by-ten photographs that were grouped on the wall above the sofa

No one was near them, yet suddenly two photos began to rattle violently against the wall, and then both flew off their mountings and clattered to the floor behind the beige, brushed-corduroy sofa.

The remaining two photographs abruptly flung themselves off the wall

Any tremor too mild to be felt would also be too mild to tear the photographs from the wall.

Puzzled, frowning thoughtfully, Vivienne put down the knife, pulled one end of the sofa away from the wall, and collected the framed eight-by-tens that were on the floor behind it

The maddening electronic squeal issued from a pair of small stereo speakers that hung on the wall behind the bed

Each was hung from the ceiling on a length of fishing line, and the upper end of each line was knotted to its own eyehook that had been screwed firmly into the dry wall

Vivienne backed into the wall, eyes wide, hands fisted at her sides.

The display case that held nine model airplanes rocked, banging repeatedly against the wall

On the wall to the left of the bed, a poster of the creature from the Alien movies tore down the middle.

A poster of one of the movie monsters had been ripped apart; it hung from the wall in several pieces

One wall was covered by heavy drapes that blocked out the fierce desert sun

How could the temperature have dropped so far in such a short time? She listened for the sound of the air conditioner, but the telltale whisper wasn't issuing from the wall vents

She hurried around the desk, banging her hip against one corner, heading for the wall socket as the printer hummed with the production of more hateful words.

Tina stooped beside the wall outlet from which the computer received its electrical power and its data feed

She had gotten out of the car and had located the control button on the garage wall.

Besides, it's a private cemetery, surrounded by a high wall, so there must be a security system to deal with vandals."

Elliot pulled the jukebox from the wall so the old man could reach the cord.

As the white-haired cashier grasped the plug in his arthritis-gnarled hands and wiggled it back and forth in the wall socket, trying to free it, Tina almost told him to stop

A wall of dust fell softly over the car.

In the middle of the west wall - one of the two shorter walls - opposite the entrance to the room, was a six-foot-long, three-foot-high window that provided a view of another space, which was only half as large as this outer chamber

Elliot and Tina climbed over the wall and stood in the tree shadows, studying the rear approach to the funeral home.

He helped Tina over the cemetery wall, and then, clambering after her, he was sure that someone grabbed his coat from behind

When he was across the wall, he looked back, but he couldn't see anyone.

She started down the tunnel toward him, determined to get him out of there - and something reached for her from a narrow cleft in the wall

The hole in the wall was not wide enough for him to step through, into her passageway; he could only thrust one arm at her, and his long, bony fingers were an inch or two short of her

A dozen times, she passed chinks in the wall, and Death glared out at her from every one of those apertures, screamed and cursed and raged at her, but none of the holes was large enough to allow him through

Carlton Dombey, who had come on duty twenty minutes ago, sat at one of the tables against the north wall

Inside the hut, the guard plucked a telephone handset from the wall.

You're seeing just the front wall

A camera and two-way video communications monitor were mounted in the left-hand wall of the vestibule

Two uniformed men were anxiously fiddling with the control consoles beneath a series of twenty wall-mounted video displays

Tina cringed back against the corridor wall.

At the far end a window filled the center of the other short wall and apparently offered a view of a cold-storage vault; it was white with frost

Tables were arranged along the fourth wall, covered with books, file folders, and numerous instruments that Tina could not identify.

A wall of frigid air fell on the chopper and drove it down

"In the isolation chamber." Dombey indicated the window in the back wall of the room

'It's possible because the atoms that make up objects are not close together like the bricks of a wall

'Yes, Helene! I sent it through the wall that separates my transmitter from my receiving machine

Third way - is there a third way? My idea was to see if any of the bushes were broken near the vicarage garden wall.'

This time we went towards the vicarage and finally to where the bushes grew against the wall.

'Whoever murdered Colonel Protheroe did not come this way! There's no sign that anyone climbed over this wall

A picture was leaning against the wall with its back towards us

He hid behind a broken wall as one of the Martian tripods returned

And then the light came, not through the window, which was filled with earth from the garden, but through a small hole that had been knocked in the wall

The falling bricks had left another hole in the wall of the building

After that I avoided the hole in the wall for most of a day.

Suddenly, I heard a noise outside and the hole in the wall became dark

In the darkness I could just see the thing moving towards me and examining the wall and the floor

Far away I saw a thin cat walking along a wall, but there was no sign of people.

I climbed a wall and fell into a neighboring garden

When we found the hammer, he lost the place on the wall to put the picture

She said, 'The next time you put a picture on the wall, please tell me

At midnight, the picture was on the wall

The wall was dirty

She lies down again and turns her face to the wall, and James throws himself down beside her.

Quickly I climbed onto the wall beside the vestry then onto the roof