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stanchion

[stan-shuhn] / ˈstæn ʃən /


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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

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

After he had thrown down a dunk over a crowd of players in pink, Anthony Davis roared and shook the entire basket stanchion.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 5, 2022

I reached up and held on to the bottom of a stanchion.

From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos

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

Executives bided their time behind stanchions in a fully-occupied and grey-carpeted room with bright overhead lighting in the Congress Center, the event hub for the annual confab in Davos.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

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

Lanterns swung from iron stanchions along the river road, swaying when-the wind blew.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

The room was high, narrow, and lit by a barred and stanchioned window, far above my reach, even if I had been unbound. 

From A Monk of Fife by Andrew Lang

And the compass stanchioned on the bridge had gone along with a wave, stanchions and all.

From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Harry Kemp

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

To that was shackled a seventy-five foot boom, and eighty-odd tons of pig-iron were cemented close down to her keel, and that floored over and stanchioned snug.

From The Seiners by James B. (James Brendan) Connolly

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


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