barricade
Example Sentences
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He added that state and local police have improved their response time to removing protest barricades and driving away protesters trying to disrupt DHS operations.
From Salon
"We got tables and barricaded the doors" for over two hours, Darian said, until police arrived to escort them out of the school.
From BBC
On opposite sides of the makeshift barricade, fronted by coils of barbed wire, Cambodians lamented their lost homes and livelihoods as Thailand's military showed off its gains.
From Barron's
With Beatlemania, argues Fink, “huge masses of women got used to smashing through police barricades.”
For the other hike, I headed to the closed portion of June Lake Loop and parked just short of the barricade.
From Los Angeles Times
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