stockade

Example Sentences

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Caught doodling on guard duty and reprimanded, he was sent to the stockade when his age was discovered.

From New York Times

This applies universally but, with faith — I assume thanks to millennia of stakes, stockades and harangues — the tiptoeing impulse is strong.

From Washington Post

Planter boxes filled with the stumps of birch trees form a kind of stockade fence between the foyer and the dining room, where two big squares of artificial plants simulate a green wall.

From New York Times

Native American-related markers generally frame the Indigenous people in terms of the Europeans who displaced them, such as a Juniana County marker about “a stockade built about 1755 to protect settlers from Indian marauder.”

From Seattle Times

The term has also been synonymous with prisoner of war camps and stockades.

From Fox News