How to Use wall in a Sentence

wall

1 of 2 noun

• She hung posters on the walls of her room.
• A stone wall marks off their property.
• This apartment building has thin walls, and you can hear everything your neighbors say.
• Muscles in the abdominal wall help protect organs.
• That wall sealed the flight's fate.
  — James Glanz, New York Times, 1 May 2026
• So are the walls, beds and sheets.
  — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2026
• The walls were charred black from the fire’s smoke.
  — Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2026
• The kitchen wall was thick with dust next to the hood.
  — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
• The Bulls had their backs against a wall.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2026
• Most of the floor is gone, as are the walls and roof.
  — ABC News, 18 Apr. 2026
• To the right is a black wall with a big box and a door.
  — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Sep. 2025
• What about the words go home sprayed in blood on the kitchen wall?
  — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 13 Feb. 2026
• Because that drives me up the wall.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 14 Feb. 2026
• The car went straight into a rock wall.
  — Jesse Sarles, CBS News, 21 Feb. 2026
• Sauce can be seen splattered all over the walls.
  — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 28 Feb. 2026
• Penn helped scrub the walls and still lives there today.
  — Reena Advani, NPR, 1 Sep. 2025
• Mold still coats the walls along with holes in the ceiling.
  — Jeff Wagner, CBS News, 26 June 2026
• College dorm rooms had posters of the facts tacked to walls.
  — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2026
• The writing has been on the wall for quite some time now.
  — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2026
• Chekhov’s guns that hung on the wall but never went off.
  — Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
• The walls may be white, but this is the proverbial glass house.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 Nov. 2023
• Cleveland had its back to the wall, in a must-win game.
  — Ryan Ford, Freep.com, 6 Oct. 2025
• The writing has been on the wall here for at least a full year.
  — Bryan Toporek, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
• This is the breach in the wall that the smugglers have cut through.
  — CBS News, 10 Dec. 2023
• Men in suits placed their hands on the walls to bless the building.
  — Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2026
• Complete three to four sets (one wall-sit equals one set).
  — Jakob Roze, Health, 2 Sep. 2025
• Our backs are against the wall, and the stakes could not be higher.
  — Catherine Blakespear, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2026
• Names were written on body bags lined up at the foot of a wall.
  — Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2026
• Then, at the edge of a wall, light that shouldn’t be there pulses.
  — Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2026
• The gates slide shut, and the wall is designed to keep out storm surge.
  — David Schechter, Haley Rush, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2023

wall

2 of 2 verb

• The city is walled, there are gates.
  — Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025
• The first two shows of this season have been wall to wall.
  — Kansas City Star, 27 Aug. 2025
• Which is why so many tribes are walling off the outside world.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 5 Apr. 2020
• Could some blowback be aimed at Blondie if this event seems too walled-off?
  — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 8 June 2026
• And the best part is, it’s not walled off behind a fancy hotel.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2020
• His rapturous barks bounce from wall to wall around the granite basin.
  — Ted Katauskas, Outside, 23 Sep. 2025
• The house next door is bigger and well-kept, walled-off and seeming to hover.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 25 Jan. 2020
• China largely walled itself off from the rest of the world during covid.
  — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
• But as internet users have discovered over the past decade, the web is easy to wall off.
  — The Economist, 14 June 2020
• It’s walled off on two sides by hillsides dotted with large homes that offer stunning views.
  — John Rogers, The Seattle Times, 26 Mar. 2019
• And the conference center where shots were fired remained walled off.
  — Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 10 July 2018
• Levees have walled off floodplains that once allowed the river to spread across five or six miles.
  — Tristan Baurick, nola.com, 15 June 2019
• Goldsworthy had filled a gallery, wall to wall, with a sea of stones, ranging from pebbles to small boulders.
  — Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
• Congress wanted to wall off more than double that for the second effort.
  — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 25 June 2020
• They are often walled off from the street and gated; a number of these compounds make up a district.
  — NBC News, 24 Mar. 2020
• Suffice to say, the humans in Snowpiercer could not be more walled off from nature.
  — Peter Opaskar, Ars Technica, 16 Feb. 2020
• White, wriggly grubs about the size of a human thumb are walling themselves off inside rotting logs.
  — Jason Bittel, National Geographic, 11 May 2018
• The ’60s were pretty well walled-off from the Super Bowl era.
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 10 Sep. 2018
• The Celtics spent all five games walling him off in the transition game, and packing the lane in the half-court.
  — David Murphy, Philly.com, 10 May 2018
• Not to mention, there's a shop filled with everything from books and planters to wall art and apparel.
  — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 8 July 2021
• Ditto howling wind and spray, which are walled out by big wrap-back lenses and wide temples with sticky cladding at the ears.
  — Outside Online, 15 May 2018
• And, right field is smaller and shorter-walled than before 2013.
  — Tom Krasovic, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 June 2018
• And then walled to the furthest corner of the conference hall for another.
  — Preston Fore, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2025
• Business owners could use their streets and sidewalks to welcome their neighbors, or to wall themselves off from them.
  — New York Times, 29 June 2021
• Now, open shelving replaces the upper cabinets, keeping sight lines open rather than walling them in with doors.
  — R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
• Don't bring a laptop, since that can be perceived as walling yourself off from others, Kogan said.
  — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 29 Oct. 2019
• The bedrooms have also beds for children and a roof terrace is walled for privacy from the neighbors.
  — Lilia Blaise, New York Times, 12 May 2018
• If a mile of the border is walled off, that’s one less mile the Border Patrol needs to worry about.
  — Dan Crenshaw, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2019
• The resin is also double-walled for more stability and reinforced with a steel frame.
  — Shea Simmons, People.com, 4 Aug. 2025
• What was supposed to be the bedroom closet was walled up and two bookcases were built with enough space for a pull-out couch in between them.
  — Sue Strachan, NOLA.com, 30 May 2018