barracks
Example Sentences
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On the first day of class, professor Reiko Hillyer writes a quote from French philosopher Michel Foucault on the board: Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?
From Slate • May 27, 2026
An inside student might say that prisons in eastern Oregon used to be mental institutions and Army barracks; an outside student might speak about modernity and the need for discipline and control under capitalism.
From Slate • May 27, 2026
For decades, proportional response functioned less as a strategy than a ritual: hit a transmitter, strike a barracks.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
Up to 350 illegal migrants have been moved to the Crowborough military barracks in East Sussex.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026
We were not allowed to step around them as the ranks were formed: often we stood in water up to our ankles, and at night the barracks reeked with rotting shoe leather.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
