barricade
Example Sentences
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Her neighbors put up a barricade to block the vehicles.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 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
She later accused him of adultery again leading to Kimberley trying to barricade herself in a room.
From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026
I ran down the steps near the edge of the strip and I stood on the bottom rail of the barricade reaching into the stands for my family’s hands.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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