stockade

Example Sentences

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In the summer of 2008, Epstein began serving his sentence at the Palm Beach County stockade.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

“It was like you’d gone back into the stockade and you could shut the gate and get on with the work.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2025

Most of us do not want to see an ex-president pilloried or put in the stockade, literally or metaphorically.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2024

He talked back to Naval superiors when he served during World War II and got tossed in the stockade.

From Washington Post • Apr. 25, 2023

I figured they might be able to guess who’d thrown that bayonet into the stockade, but nobody would be able to prove anything.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier