barricade

Reporters chronicled every metal barricade plunked down by police and each time people were told to move back from areas near the arena, to make way for the event and guests.

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026

After a day of largely peaceful demonstrations on Saturday, including a counter-protest in support of ICE, some protesters attempted to breach a police barricade, prompting police to use tear gas.

From Barron's ● May 31, 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

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

A small crowd of people gathered behind a cordon of metal barricades and police tape, some of them in their pyjamas.

From Barron's ● Jul. 12, 2026

Local media say the fibreglass and iron structure has been secured with heavy-duty nylon ropes, while barricades have been erected to keep people and traffic clear of the site.

From BBC ● May 27, 2026

But New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani dragged his feet on implementing it, and at least as we write this hadn’t denounced the protest that included a charge against the police barricades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026

We bought a bunch of road rental companies — all those orange barricades and cones and striping you see on the roads.

From MarketWatch ● May 6, 2026

Back in August the Patriots had torn it down to use the wood for the barricades.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson

The door had been barricaded - reinforced with planks of wood and bricks - making entry more difficult.

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026

Ahead of the Lyon rally, some residents living near the march's planned route had barricaded the ground floor windows of their apartments, fearing unrest.

From Barron's ● Feb. 21, 2026

Im did not clarify how — or with what — the suspect barricaded himself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2026

Uncollected garbage barricaded the drainage ditches that encased their neighborhood.

From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025

The Ridgefolk had been either sedated, hauled away, or barricaded behind stone doors.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

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

Rabbi Walker was one of the men who, like Mr Daulby, had been barricading the doors to stop Al-Shamie getting in before police shot the attacker dead.

From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2026

Five minutes later, officers moved the furniture barricading the stairs, and senators and staff evacuated, winding down several flights to reach the subway between the Capitol and Senate office buildings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2024

An emergency alert was issued and sirens sounded just two minutes later, issuing a lockdown warning that left worried students and staff barricading themselves inside dorms, bathrooms, classrooms and gyms.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2023

Kids crowded all along the back of the bench, barricading any escape.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia