Sentence examples for compound and were from inspiring English sources

The six abductors holding Norgrove stumbled out of their huts into the central compound and were shot and killed.

Hundreds were separated from their wives and children in front of Dutch troops at the compound and were hauled off and executed.

Eventually, we pulled into a walled compound and were put in a darkened room inside a low, tin-roofed building.

The American statement said that coalition troops had cleared one compound and were moving to another when "they were met by a barrage of automatic weapons and small-arms fire".

However, a separate source has told the BBC that troops had already entered one building inside the compound and were preparing to push on further.

The Associated Press said that Defence Secretary Ash Carter said in a news briefing on Friday that US troops were not planning to enter the compound, and were there only to advise and assist Kurdish fighters known as peshmerga.

But the beavers remain in their compound and are not the source of the population now seen on the River Otter.

To make something from scratch is to witness it compound and be a contagion for more of the same.

Diesel emissions have been found to contain cancer-causing compounds and are believed to worsen asthma conditions.

Others suggest that arsenic compounds are too unstable to replace phosphorus compounds and be functional.

An IIT-Delhi incubated startup called EnNatura developed a printing ink which emits no volatile compounds and is washable.