barracks

Example Sentences

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For decades, proportional response functioned less as a strategy than a ritual: hit a transmitter, strike a barracks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

He was first taken to an army barracks and then moved to a prison – Lagos's Kirikiri Correctional Centre – where he waited for his trial to start.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026

Last month, officials from several Gulf states met defense companies at a British army barracks close to Buckingham Palace.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

Besides the chapel, they are a trolley station, a wing of barracks and the superintendent’s and governor’s residences.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

Back at the barracks we formed yet another line—would there never be an end to columns and waits?—to receive our ladle of turnip soup in the center room.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom