tandem-compound

Definitions

Examples

• He scrambled outside to find a 25-foot-wide crater just beyond the mud wall surrounding his family compound.

• Less than 30 minutes after the firefight started, commandos entered the compound and found the mortally wounded hostages.

• They say that the Israelis framed him in order to light the powder keg of religious war over the al-Aqsa compound.

• The Holy City, specifically the al-Aqsa compound, has been the flashpoint for the latest round of conflict.

• Now the lead breacher explained how he cut through the steel doors bin Laden used to seal himself into the compound at night.

• He, with others, thinking the miss-sahib had gone to church, was smoking the hookah of gossip in a neighboring compound.

• They held the compound against repeated assaults, and lost several men in hand-to-hand fighting.

• Passing a bungalow that was blazing furiously, he saw in the compound the corpses of two women.

• The body of a young woman was found in the compound outside my bungalow, done to death in precisely the same way.

• The compound was washed on the fifth of May, and a grain of gold weighing one and one-half reals was obtained.