Sentence examples for stormed the wall from inspiring English sources

The Spanish stormed the wall, to find that the inhabitants had withdrawn under cover of torrential rain that had interrupted the battle.

Tuesday night, I was on a plane coming home late, that's when people stormed the wall and there were a few arrests.

Travis became one of the first defenders to die, shot while firing his shotgun into the soldiers below him, though one source says that he drew his sword and stabbed a Mexican officer who had stormed the wall before succumbing to his injury.

The Spanish stormed the wall, to find that the inhabitants had left spears planted inside to make the Spanish think that warriors were still defending the town, when they had actually withdrawn under cover of torrential rain that had interrupted the battle.

The sappers who silently undermined the foundations of the Church did more damage than the soldiers who stormed the walls.

And like clockwork, on September 11, crowds of Muslim protesters stormed the walls of the US embassy in Cairo, demanding retribution for the insult to the prophet Muhammad.

As student revolutionaries stormed the walls of the US embassy in Tehran in November 1979, a handful of staff escaped through a back door.

A chanting crowd of approximately 2,000 Egyptians stormed the walls of the American embassy in Cairo yesterday, while another mob in Benghazi stormed the U.S. consulate there.

His new book, Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security (City Lights Books), has just been published.

In a comedy of errors, the bumbling East German government became paralyzed as mobs tried to storm the wall and get to West Germany.

Still, potential buyers are not storming the walls.