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How to use barricade in a sentence

17 example sentences · noun, verb

Barricade means a barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence. Example: “The rioters had erected a makeshift barricade and were pelting the police with rocks from behind it.”

Examples of barricade by meaning

nounAn obstacle, barrier, or bulwark.

  • He might have nightmares featuring the face of Courtois, such was the one-man barricade he formed.2022 May 28, Phil McCulty, “Liverpool 0-1 Real Madrid”, in BBC Sport

More sentences with barricade

  • The rioters had erected a makeshift barricade and were pelting the police with rocks from behind it.From the entry rioter
  • The police put up barricade tape around the crime scene.From the entry barricade tape
  • A man had barricaded himself inside the Chase Bank building in downtown Bakersfield around 1 p.m.2026 June 2, Andy Rose, “Suspect who took 10 hostages is dead after hourslong bomb threat at California building, authorities say”, in…. From the entry Bakersfield
  • "I did!" She had reached the barricades, and leaned over them languorously.2023 October 14, HarryBlank, “Face Time”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 23 May 2024. From the entry languorously
  • Cold War-era steel barricades on the shores of Taiwan’s Lieyu Island.2016 June 7, Michael Forsythe, “Caught Between China and Taiwan, and Leaning Toward China”, in The New York Times (Asia Pacific section)…. From the entry Lieyu
  • Machine-gun-toting soldiers eyed us suspiciously from barricades and peely-paint-covered guard shacks.1991, Roy M. Wallack, The Traveling Cyclist: 20 Five-Star Cycling Vacations, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, →ISBN, page 214. From the entry peely
  • Behind his barricade of barrels, Sam heard and shivered like a gun-shy collie at a turkey shoot.1913, B. M. Bower, chapter 3, in The Uphill Climb. From the entry turkey shoot
  • He overcame police barricades, climbed through windows, and joined his fellows in occupying the offices of President Grayson Kirk.1996, R[obert] Emmett Tyrell, Jr., “The Making of the Clinton Cabal”, in Boy Clinton: The Political Biography, Washington, D.C.: Regnery…. From the entry urinator
  • The doors were barricaded, the shutters closed upon the windows and loopholed, and provisions were brought in from the outhouses.1907, A. E. W. Mason, The Broken Road. From the entry loophole
  • To the south, though, the explosive-crammed pod rushed over spivvy streets, directly above a barricade at the borders of Aspic and Barrackham.2004, China Miéville, Iron Council, Del Rey trade paperback ed., published 2005, →ISBN, page 464. From the entry spivvy
  • Jammed onto a narrow, steep sidewalk, police barricades all around, we march with placards, drums, and angry spirit: "The Moral Majority, cops and Klan.1984 August 11, Merle Woo, “Revolutionary Optimism—The Order of the Day”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 5, page 5. From the entry honda
  • James's Street or Piccadilly and setting up without more ado a barricade and rousing a mob to defend freedom, justice and democracy.1930, Winston S[pencer] Churchill, “I Leave the Army”, in My Early Life: A Roving Commission, London: Thornton Butterworth […], published…. From the entry rouse
  • There it was even easier to forget that just six miles away, barricades were being set up in anticipation of a major protest in Mong Kok.2019 November 19, Sebastian Modak, “We Put Hong Kong on the 52 Places to Go List. Things Got Complicated.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN…. From the entry Cheung Chau
  • “When you have an active shooter going after people at random—a shooter with a plan,” he said, “that's completely different than your typical barricade hostage situation.”1999 April 28, Timothy Egan, quoting Larry Glick, “School Attack May Bring Changes in Police Tactics”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry active shooter
  • Outside the Convention Center, meanwhile, protesters on either side of police barricades waved signs, chanted, sang songs and heckled people walking inside to attend the fundraiser.1982 April 24, Claude Peck, “Demo Greets Falwell During Visit to Minneapolis”, in Gay Community News, page 3. From the entry drink the Kool-Aid
  • In the working-class quarters the barricades were being pulled down, rather fragmentarily, for it is a lot easier to build a barricade than to put the stones back.1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter X, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC. From the entry fragmentarily

Meaning of barricade

  1. noun A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence.
  2. noun An obstacle, barrier, or bulwark.
  3. noun A place of confrontation.

Full definition of barricade

Questions about barricade in a sentence

How do you use barricade in a sentence?
Barricade is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The rioters had erected a makeshift barricade and were pelting the police with rocks from behind it.”
What is a short sentence with barricade?
“The police put up barricade tape around the crime scene.”
What does barricade mean?
Barricade means a barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence.

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