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
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
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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
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
These monumental photographs, each more than 6 feet tall, are framed behind glass, so installed without the intrusive stanchions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2023
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
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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
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 Robertson, Morgan
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 Reid, Mayne
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.)
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)
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