stockade

Example Sentences

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And then several hundred men who had called for the work stoppage that was bottling up ships in the harbor were rounded up and held without bail in a specially built “stockade.”

From Los Angeles Times

While in Palm Beach sheriff’s custody, Epstein was allowed to stay in an isolated cell at the county’s minimum-security stockade, where he roamed freely and watched television.

From Seattle Times

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

From Washington Post

Past this stockade of behavior, little of an inner life can get out.

From New York Times

Sr. recalls he started writing when he was in the stockade during the army.

From Salon