barracks

Example Sentences

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She shared it with her sister and other women who slept on boards stacked up in the barracks.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

Besides the chapel, they are a trolley station, a wing of barracks and the superintendent’s and governor’s residences.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

Training will take place at barracks in three locations around Croatia, with recruits expected to report to the facility nearest to their homes.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2026

I spoke to sources who have worked in a defense capacity, and they said most likely this was human error—that it’s right next to a barracks and it could have been an error in combat.

From Slate • Mar. 3, 2026

And yet in spite of sorrow and anxiety—and no one in that place was without both—there was laughter, too, in the Phillips barracks.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom