load-bearing wall
supporting wall

The man is leaning forward away from the supporting wall.

As the floor increased in weight, the supporting walls must become stronger.

Behind him, like a door slamming shut, the supporting wall collapsed.

The purpose is to preclude water from damaging the supporting wall.

The southern bastion along with its supporting wall has collapsed.

Sometimes the figure looks straight out at us, but mostly she is turned inward, her face buried in the supporting wall.

The supporting wall could give way at any moment, and he will need to repair it immediately, before the building collapses.

The station's tracks are separated by a supporting wall, because it is built in soft ground.

He said that the supporting wall of the tunnel would be thinnest there.

He spoke against the supporting wall of the communication booth, and it was broadcast here along with the rest.

He strode up three steps to a small house that seemed to share a supporting wall with the structure beside it.

The whole structure rests on exterior posts, with no supporting walls.

The bronchi have cartilage as part of their supporting wall structure.

Only the supporting wall of the chapel, with heavy buttresses is visible.

Rock faces were used as supporting walls for buildings.

The supporting wall surface should be continuous (not "open framing") and flat.

They hung from the supporting wall of the room as though they had been glued there.

Robert began with special thick supporting walls and four massive brick piers.

The supporting wall contained space for 120 memorial tablets.

He followed in silence across the moonlit expanse until they came to the supporting wall of the dome.

A train deafened them as it roared past on the other side of the brick supporting wall.

The construction crew apparently undermined a supporting wall while replacing brickwork.

It was also over engineered with solid brick exterior and interior supporting walls.

The sight of steel beams supporting walls stripped down to the brick is quite unusual.

It was even bigger than Bond had imagined, and the supporting wall of black granite blocks more formidable.