Sentence examples for in their compound from inspiring English sources
Early last week, Mr. Yasin left his fighters in their compound to attend a commanders' meeting.
These days Rachel's mother, Judy, and father, Mac, a doctor, socialize almost entirely with expatriate doctors in their compound.
Locusts have special features in their compound eyes that make them sensitive to polarized light; the insects can analyze polarization patterns to help with navigation.
One family — the Al Kurds — lost half their property; they now live, uncomfortably, behind the settlers who took up residence in their compound.
But the beavers remain in their compound and are not the source of the population now seen on the River Otter.
This is especially since a rebel called Boxer (Isaach De Bankolé) is hiding out in their compound, giving the soldiers a pretext for violent action, and Bankolé's peripheral presence is as mysterious and oblique as everything else in the movie.
While other foreigners remained cloistered in their compounds — some wistfully so, restricted by the rigid precautions of their employers — my new friends didn't find Afghanistan intrinsically scary.
On Sunday night many organisations employing foreign staff, including the United Nations, ordered their staff into a "lockdown", banning all movements around Kabul and requiring people to remain in their compounds.
Some government lawmakers, including the Druse leader, Walid Jumblatt, and Saad Hariri, the son of the assassinated former prime minister Rafiq Hariri, spent the day holed up in their compounds, protected by Lebanese Army contingents and the police.
All three owners of the major gated communities there — Reynolds Plantation and its sister property, Reynolds Landing; Harbor Club and Cuscowilla — are planning for growth in their compounds, and developers are planning thousands of new homes.
