walled plain

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noun

a circular or almost circular area on the moon, sometimes with a floor that is depressed, usually partially enclosed by walls that rise to varying heights and that are usually lower than those of a crater.

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Words nearby walled plain

wall box, wall brown, wallcovering, wall creeper, walled, walled plain, Wallenberg, Wallenda, Wallensis, Wallenstein, Waller

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How to use walled plain in a sentence

Yet, much like the fate that fell the first season, ratings just plain weren't good.
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Thanks to the Atlanta case, they can now see another in plain sight.
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Because holy hell was that bland, unfunny, uncomfortable, and just plain confusing.
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It is already well known that there are oilrigs disguised in plain sight all over the city.
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A report by the Cleveland Plain Dealer describes balloons being released into the night sky.
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The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
But what a magnificent plain is this we are entering upon: it is of immense extent.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
There are many more good dwellings on this plain than in the rural portion of Lower Italy.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
The word of the law shall be fulfilled without a lie, and wisdom shall be made plain in the mouth of the faithful.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various

British Dictionary definitions for walled plain

walled plain

noun

any of the largest of the lunar craters, having diameters between 50 and 300 kilometres

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