wall collapses
Frequency: 6.57.5 per million words
When a wall breaks and falls down suddenly.
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Examples (10)
- The old wall collapsed after years of neglect.
- During the earthquake, several building walls collapsed.
- Experts feared the retaining wall might collapse under the pressure.
- If the foundation weakens, the exterior wall could collapse.
- We watched in horror as the ancient castle wall slowly collapsed.
- The construction crew worked quickly to prevent the temporary wall from collapsing.
- A section of the garden wall collapses every winter due to heavy rain.
- Thankfully, no one was injured when the brick wall collapsed unexpectedly.
- The engineer warned that the structural wall was about to collapse.
- Strong winds caused the fence wall to collapse overnight.