stanchion
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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
The debris was determined to be part of a stanchion used to mount batteries on a cargo pallet.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 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
I reached up and held on to the bottom of a stanchion.
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
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
As a boy in Ketchikan, Alaska, Jackson Polys would help his father, the prominent Tlingit artist Nathan Jackson, carve totem poles behind rope stanchions while boatloads of tourists watched.
From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 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
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
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
The deck cabins, though yawning and seamed, were so firmly stanchioned that he could not drag out so much as a plank.
From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Bertram Mitford
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
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