Usage examples of "cerca" in Portuguese with translation to English

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Não mije numa cerca elétrica. Don't pee on an electric fence.
O homem pisa na cerca onde ela está mais baixa Where the hedge is lowest, commonly men leap over
Pintei a cerca de verde. I painted the fence green.
Uma cerca rodeia a casa. A fence runs around the house.
Duas crianças estão sentadas na cerca. Two children are sitting on the fence.
Um dos bois derrubou a cerca. One of the bulls pushed the fence down.
Não faça xixi numa cerca elétrica. Don't pee on an electric fence.
Eles ergueram uma cerca ao redor da fazenda. They built a fence around the farm.
O menino e a menina estão sentados na cerca. A boy and a girl are sitting on the fence.
A casa fica protegida da vista dos outros graças a uma cerca alta. The house is screened from view with a high fence.
Está a cerca de oito quilômetros. It's about 8 kilometers away.
cerca de 1000 alunos na nossa escola. There are about 1,000 students at our high school.
Eu o comprei por cerca de 12 dólares. I bought it for about twelve dollars.
cerca de sete bilhões de pessoas no mundo. There are almost seven billion people in the world.
Existem cerca de 6 bilhões de pessoas no mundo. There are about 6 billion people in the world.
O dicionário contém cerca de meio milhão de palavras. The dictionary gathers nearly half a million words.
Tom mora a cerca de vinte minutos de Mary. Tom lives about twenty minutes away from Mary.
O apêndice tem cerca de 10 cm de comprimento. The appendix is about 10 cm long.
A luz viaja a cerca de 186.000 milhas por segundo. Light travels at about 186,000 miles per second.
O mar cobre cerca de três quartos da superfície da Terra. The sea covers nearly three-fourths of the earth's surface.
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