barricade

In the western city of Rennes, around 20 people set up a barricade using trash bins and large pallets on the outskirts of a shopping mall.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

She wasn’t expecting to find herself on the opposite side of a barricade from people she had spent much of her adult life marching alongside.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

A police barricade separated him from Ms. Townsend and other spectators outside his house.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Community police officers and “autodefensas” stand guard at the main barricade of San Ángel Zurumucapio, monitoring people leaving or entering the community.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

They asked everyone to step out of the bus; then they made us walk through a barricade.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah

In the Indian capital, police—who were deployed starting before dawn—stopped vehicles and pedestrians at yellow metal barricades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

The Whelford resident said she had noticed an "uneasiness in the air" in the the days leading up to the incident, alongside extra concrete barricades around the airbase.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

An “autodefensa,” or armed member of the town’s militia, checks a vehicle’s paperwork at one of the barricades erected to protect San Ángel Zurumucapio,.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

Attacks on government buildings in central Kyiv -- which are heavily fortified and ring-fenced by security barricades -- are rare, however.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

News cameramen pushed past us to the front of the barricades, shouting, "Coming through," as they tromped on toes and threw elbows.

From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon

Much of Delhi looked like a city under siege on Saturday, with roads barricaded and offices, shops and restaurants shut.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

To understand the pupils' tactics, one must look beyond the barricaded school gates to a political tradition.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

On Sunday morning, access to the airbase at the airport, where the mutineers had barricaded themselves in, and to the presidency, were open again, residents said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

By the time deputies arrived, the suspect had barricaded himself inside his home, authorities said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026

He seems barricaded behind his podium, but the white rose in his lapel is in full view.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

Security was tightened around the Election Commission headquarters on Tuesday, with police barricading roads along the route between parliament and the commission's office.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

On Monday, authorities closed schools and colleges for two days and imposed restrictions on public movement by barricading many arterial roads.

From Barron's ● Mar. 2, 2026

Protesters and worried family began arriving soon afterward, and by 2:30 p.m., a line of about 30 agents, including National Guard members, was barricading nearby Laguna Road.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2025

Police believe the woman barricading herself is a missing Maryland woman found Tuesday morning.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 29, 2023

My progress must have prompted the Sixers to end their covert attempts to clear the Third Gate and make its location public by barricading it before I or anyone else could reach it.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline