stockade

Example Sentences

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“It was like you’d gone back into the stockade and you could shut the gate and get on with the work.”

From Los Angeles Times

Then several hundred men who had called for the work stoppage were rounded up and held without bail in a specially built “stockade.”

From Los Angeles Times

Rejecting a First Amendment challenge, the court upheld Private Wilson’s conviction and sentence to four months in the stockade, a bad-conduct discharge, and other penalties.

From Salon

The Times, taking the opposite line, reported that Glenn and another student, Brendon Barr, were adjudged “incorrigible” and clocked in a stockade as a last resort.

From Los Angeles Times

Most of us do not want to see an ex-president pilloried or put in the stockade, literally or metaphorically.

From Salon