barricade
Example Sentences
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Her neighbors put up a barricade to block the vehicles.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026
“That’s when we put the barricade to stop him from being moved,” Pillay recalled.
From Slate • May 29, 2026
Working with screenwriter Will Soodik, Parsons has gone back into that banal maze to find an uncannily mature story about loss and stagnation, about how our self-serving narratives barricade us from emotional growth.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
Its chief executive, Kevin McPartlin, told RTÉ that the number could be five times that by Friday night, adding that 50% of the country's new supply was being kept behind barricade lines.
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026
In her final Memory, she’s looking on behind a barricade as a man in uniform walks to a waiting helicopter.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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