barracks

Example Sentences

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Less than 300 feet southeast, the main dining hall and a barracks that can house roughly 450 personnel sustained damage.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026

Requesting anonymity, the source emphasised that the Lebanese army was still present at the army barracks in Nabatieh city.

From Barron's • Jun. 14, 2026

The group themselves said they had seen examples of the council suggesting children walk through Catterick military barracks.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

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

There were no walls, no barbed wire, and the barracks had windowboxes.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom