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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

He had a ferocious one-handed dunk off a Doncic assist that got Hayes so amped up that he head-butted the basket stanchion in celebration.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 3, 2025

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

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

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

We’ve got rock formation under the channel near the stanchions to prevent a ship from getting anywhere close to it.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 18, 2024

By Sunday afternoon, plastic stanchions and red caution tape cordoned off the corner of the building, where some glass and rubble from the smashed facade still lay.

From Seattle Times Nov. 5, 2023

Everything possible was carved with designs, even the stanchions where the goats put their heads and the stalls in the little barn.

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen

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

In a time shorter than it takes to tell it, the two doomed men are made fast to the stanchioned chairs; where they sit bolt upright, firm as bollard heads.

From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Mayne Reid

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

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

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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