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walls of vs walls in

Both phrases are correct, but they are used in different contexts. 'Walls of' is used to indicate the material or composition of the walls, while 'walls in' is used to describe the location or position of something within the walls.

Last updated: March 25, 2024 • 754 views

walls of

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English to indicate the material or composition of the walls.

Use 'walls of' when you want to describe the material or composition of the walls. For example, 'The walls of the castle were made of stone.'

Examples:

  • The walls of the house were painted white.
  • The walls of the room were covered in wallpaper.
  • The walls of the fortress were built with thick bricks.
  • Three nights back, we were camped beneath the walls of Idirsholas...
  • Like two puncture holes in the walls of an incinerator.
  • I found, like, these walkways all along the walls of the school.
  • But the walls of that tower, could not hide everything.
  • A unicorn's horn to grace the walls of Camelot.
  • The walls of this house are paper thin.
  • Even the walls of Jericho fell, Captain.
  • He painted in red all the walls of his class.
  • I had all these notes on the walls of my room.
  • I'm here inside the walls of Bunker Hill...
  • What Tyler seeks lies within the walls of the Holylands.
  • A morbid relationship behind the walls of an ordinary house.
  • I wish you'd take those things off the walls of Jericho.
  • To tear down the walls of Jericho.
  • Of Joshua at the walls of Jericho.
  • The walls of Rabbah have been breached.
  • - Still within the walls of Carcassonne.
  • No more cowering behind the walls of Athens.
  • You have decorated the walls of Rome with flags and pennants.
  • You've done this... imprisoned us in these walls of ice.

Alternatives:

  • the house's walls
  • the room's walls
  • the fortress walls

walls in

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English to describe the location or position of something within the walls.

Use 'walls in' when you want to describe the location or position of something within the walls. For example, 'There are paintings on the walls in the living room.'

Examples:

  • There are shelves on the walls in the kitchen.
  • The pictures on the walls in the gallery were stunning.
  • There is a clock on the walls in the classroom.
  • Her undoing was the color of the walls in this brief scene.
  • So we have Portal because you shoot walls in order to create new spaces.
  • And we can see this now: we go back to the walls in the Alhambra.
  • Now, this power of the language is even more, because Galois can say, "Did the Moorish artists discover all of the possible symmetries on the walls in the Alhambra?"
  • I painted the walls in that mine in ten foot parcels over 400 feet in.
  • The things that scurry behind the walls in my head?
  • But you could have rented a suite with actual walls in any of the new high-rises.
  • So, for example, the walls in the Alhambra - I can take all of these tiles, and fix them at the yellow place, rotate them by 90 degrees, put them all back down again and they fit perfectly down there.
  • She covered her walls in butterflies.
  • That would explain the ripped up walls in her storage locker.
  • Which suggests thin walls in a city.
  • Not a good year for building walls in East Germany.
  • If the Cabinet's in danger, these are about the safest walls in Britain.
  • There were no concrete walls in the sewer plans.
  • It must be the walls in here blocking the signal.
  • You hit walls in boot camp.
  • All the walls in Europe have been knocked down.
  • Just the walls in my loft.
  • You have very thin walls in your place.
  • Hurtle myself against city walls in mad attempt.

Alternatives:

  • the walls of the kitchen
  • the gallery walls
  • the classroom walls

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