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Meanings of bulwark in anglès
portuguès
quebra-mar català
espigó 
Sinònims
Examples for "mole"
Examples for "mole"
1
However, the Si: Al mole ratio tended to differ widely among species.
2
Perhaps Nosenko had been sent to protect the mole inside the CIA.
3
The mole was draining the soil and purging it of its vermin.
4
What I think happened was one of Akhan's men was a mole.
5
Evidence, maybe, that there was a mole, that Rolf had been right.
1
Kappa statistics on per groin basis were calculated to express interobserver agreement.
2
My right knee rises to strike his groin; my toes point downward.
3
Cassius stabbed him in the face, and Marcus Brutus in the groin.
4
The glands in the right axilla and the groin were much enlarged.
5
He's coming off a groin strain and will need help pressuring Griffin.
1
He points down a half-hidden slope that leads to a small jetty.
2
There is a private stone jetty directly in front of the house.
3
He found her twenty minutes later on a jetty at the marina.
4
To the south stood a long wooden jetty with boats moored alongside.
5
Let us walk on the jetty; I should like to see her.
1
One day the fisher-boys ran out on to the breakwater in playtime.
2
I was able to dodge its impact by ducking behind the breakwater.
3
He just noticed enough to take the direction toward the harbor breakwater.
4
MacGolderick blew himself up at Puerto Truxillo, shooting rocks for the breakwater.
5
Ruggiero saw him from the breakwater and watched him with evident interest.
1
Workers construct a new seawall at the eastern end of South Tarawa.
2
Just walking across the seawall toward the Lighthouse today had been difficult.
3
Bits of the seawall were found far down the runway, Hersman added.
4
The moorages opposite the gaps in the seawall are given to locals.
5
I stood rooted to the seawall, entranced, waiting for it to attack.
1
Great rollers come in at the concrete groyne at the foot of East Street.
2
And look there, Nesta, see that groyne; that very one.'
3
Michael leant against a groyne to support himself, and looked over the water, seeing nothing.
4
And look there, Nesta, see that groyne; that very one.' Mrs. Marsett pointed her whip hard out.
5
In the evening when the wind had dropped a little, they went out on the groyne to see the steamer come in.
Usage of bulwark in anglès
1
However, the Foundation was the last bulwark in Harry and Wills' relationship.
2
Yes; the best bulwark of faith is a good and honest heart.
3
There was no time to talk -anotherladder hit the stone bulwark.
4
Or look at the FTSE 100 index, that bulwark of solid investment.
5
Katrin had established herself behind the bulwark of a large, rude table.
6
The reasoning was that this land served as a bulwark against poverty.
7
They slammed into the curving bulwark, their progress halted for the moment.
8
There were sixteen men huddled together under the remains of the bulwark.
9
She will never become against us the strong bulwark of the Allies.
10
The roof of the citadel has a high bulwark, loopholed for musketry.
11
So much so as to make them a bulwark of the government.
12
It will silence the sceptics, and form a bulwark for all religion.
13
The next moment they were pulling themselves up and over the bulwark.
14
He sank down behind his chosen bulwark, and stared through the fog.
15
To things that go too deep, one opposes the bulwark of obtuseness.
16
Home life is the citadel and bulwark of every race's moral life.
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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