stanchion
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Brooking's second goal is best remembered for getting lodged in the stanchion in the top corner of the net.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
That’s because it plans to run two lines simultaneously on either side of a new, shorter stanchion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
However, even with a payment method linked, there was an issue at the stanchion, as the scanner repeatedly prompted the addition of a payment method when trying to re-enter the seating area.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2024
He landed near the basket stanchion and immediately began grabbing at his left knee, while teammates reacted in obvious disbelief.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 23, 2023
He’d leaned against the fender of Abel Martinson’s truck inspecting the hand he’d scraped that morning against a stanchion on Carl Heine’s gill-netting boat.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
Traffic cones have been placed around the crater, and AFP reported that waves pounding the sea front can be seen "lapping in the hole and rushing out again under the stanchions that support the home".
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
That means the end of those stainless-steel stanchions with numbers etched into them at the gate, where passengers today line up based on boarding position assigned at check-in and then pick any open seat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
And you're funneled through a labyrinth of retractable stanchions like you’re about to meet a costumed mouse at Magic Kingdom, not a budtender named Jade.
From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2025
The most noticeable cameras are embedded in circular screens atop chest-high stanchions, while the arena’s design cleverly hides others along the walls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2024
He observed that my gaze was fixed absently upon the stanchions, and after a time grew tired of waiting, and asked me what I thought of.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
It is set lengthwise, fore and aft, a stout hair-cloth chair at top, another at bottom, and one at each side—all, like the table, stanchioned to the timbers of the half-deck.
From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Mayne Reid
Tom Peel understood his business; he had every door barred and stanchioned, and the windows protected, as well as the means to his hand would allow.
From The O'Ruddy A Romance by C. D. (Charles D.) Williams
The doors were closed, and the windows were stanchioned with iron.
From Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge by James Aitken Wylie
They mustered eighteen in all, and in half an hour they were ironed in a row along the stanchioned rail of the torpedo-boat.
From The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility by Morgan Robertson
Such a one stands in the centre, its legs fixed in the floor, with four chairs around it, similarly stanchioned.
From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Mayne Reid
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