Below you will find example sentences with "berlin wall". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Berlin Wall in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: berlin
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 15
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 28 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 8 start, 8 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "berlin wall" has 2 words and usually appears near the start in these examples. The average sentence has 28 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as of the berlin wall in 1989, along the berlin wall near potsdamer, east, west and fall stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with west berlin, east berlin, border wall, west berlin, east berlin and berlin germany, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with berlin wall
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It wasn’t the Berlin Wall, the Great Wall of China or Trump’s Mexican border wall. (17 words)
People walk along the Berlin Wall near Potsdamer Platz on the West Berlin side, Nov. 17, 1989. (17 words)
Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” speech at the Berlin wall in 1987 was a more significant factor. (17 words)
On the Western side the Wall was not protected, so everybody could paint on the Wall. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 the Eastern side of the Wall became also a popular “canvas” for many mural and graffiti artists. (42 words)
Referencing the fall of the Berlin Wall, Meyer said that his pitch for the film was, “What if the wall came down in outer space?” with the Federation standing in for the United States and the Klingon Empire for the Soviet Union. (42 words)
On the sealing off of West Berlin from East Berlin by the Berlin Wall the entrances of the stations on these lines located in East Berlin were shut, however, western trains were allowed to continue to pass through without stopping. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
On the sealing off of West Berlin from East Berlin by the Berlin Wall the entrances of the stations on these lines located in East Berlin were shut, however, western trains were allowed to continue to pass through without stopping.
On the Western side the Wall was not protected, so everybody could paint on the Wall. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 the Eastern side of the Wall became also a popular “canvas” for many mural and graffiti artists.
To stop this drain of people defecting, the East German government built the Berlin Wall, thus physically closing off West Berlin from East Berlin and East Germany, on 13 August 1961.
Virtually every road that was severed by the Berlin Wall (that links from West Berlin to East Berlin) was reconstructed and reopened by 1 August 1990.
After the initial opening of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989, Potsdamer Platz became one of the earliest locations where the Wall was "breached" to create a new border crossing between East and West Berlin.
The fall of the Wall The Potsdamer Platz crossing, seen here from the west into East Berlin, opened days after the first breach of the Berlin Wall in November 1989.
It wasn’t the Berlin Wall, the Great Wall of China or Trump’s Mexican border wall.
Souvenir chunk of concrete from the Wall. Sandpainting of the Destruction of the Wall by Brian Pike (using magnetised iron filings and particles from the Berlin Wall).
From the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 until the early 2010s, when rents began rising sharply, Berlin was a hotbed for unregulated experimentation and exuberant hedonism.
A gun-toting communist 'combat group', pictured left, seals off a boundary between East and West Berlin in preparation for the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961.
People walk along the Berlin Wall near Potsdamer Platz on the West Berlin side, Nov. 17, 1989.
On a trip to France with his son on August 13, 1961, he heard of the impending Berlin Wall and returned to Berlin immediately to quit his appointment.
Part of the Berlin Wall at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin Opposition In some European capitals at the time, there was a deep anxiety over prospects for a reunified Germany.
Some scenes of the 1987 Wim Wenders movie Der Himmel über Berlin (English title: Wings of Desire ) were filmed on the old, almost entirely void Potsdamer Platz before the Berlin Wall fell.
Soviets give East Germany control over East Berlin ; in August the Berlin Wall is built to stem wave of refugees escaping to the Western side.
With the construction of the Berlin Wall on 13 August 1961, any remaining railway traffic between West Berlin and its East German suburbs ended.
Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” speech at the Berlin wall in 1987 was a more significant factor.
Referencing the fall of the Berlin Wall, Meyer said that his pitch for the film was, “What if the wall came down in outer space?” with the Federation standing in for the United States and the Klingon Empire for the Soviet Union.
Fall of the Berlin Wall (opening of unrestrained border crossings between east and west, which effectively deprived the wall of any relevance).
Although this demonstration was pivotal, the fall of the Berlin Wall wouldn’t happen for another month.