Sentence examples for mud compound from inspiring English sources
We returned to my host's mud compound.
They were living in a mud hut in a mud compound in the middle of a dust bowl, 40km from the nearest base.
At one family's mud compound this month, an American soldier who was keeping watch up on a shed roof accidentally broke a chunk off as he climbed down.
The bombs in South Waziristan hit a mud compound in Wana in the afternoon, killing an Arab of Middle Eastern origin, two men from Turkmenistan and six Pakistanis from outside the tribal area, the security official said.
KABUL, Afghanistan — A woman and seven young children were killed in southern Afghanistan when a coalition patrol called in an airstrike against insurgents firing on them from a mud compound, Afghan officials said Saturday.
On a hot day in June 2004, the Pashtun tribesman was lounging inside a mud compound in South Waziristan, speaking by satellite phone to one of the many reporters who regularly interviewed him on how he had fought and humbled Pakistan's army in the country's western mountains.
In a display of overwhelming force, an A-10 attack jet circled overhead and dozens of American vehicles surrounded seven mud compounds spread across a barren hillside.
The villages that hug the roads are veritable zombie towns, where families of men, women and children hide their addiction within barren mud compounds.
There were flashes and booms from tanks and Katyusha rocket launchers and, in the foreground, autumn wheat fields and a few flocks of longhaired black goats near the crumbling, fortresslike mud compounds of peasant farmers.
Thousands of U.S. troops, contractors and civilian employees were deployed there, and tens of thousands more used it as a way-station to get to smaller bases from which troops patrolled through the poppy fields, deserts and mud compounds.
The trail was needed as the path for a new forward base overlooking Makeen, a series of small villages of flat-roofed mud compounds stretched out along a narrow valley.
