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
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
Stretching from the front pulpit to a back stanchion and all around the Frog were stainless-steel lifelines rigged in stout stainless-steel posts.
From "The Voyage Of The Frog" by Gary Paulsen
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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
Maybe it’s a metaphor, too: There are stanchions, there are walls, but sometimes you can walk through them.
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2022
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
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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 Lang, Andrew
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 Williams, C. D. (Charles D.)
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 Wylie, James Aitken
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 Connolly, James B. (James Brendan)
And the compass stanchioned on the bridge had gone along with a wave, stanchions and all.
From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Kemp, Harry
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