How to Use barricaded in a Sentence

barricaded

adjective
  • Not everyone loves the crowds, barricaded streets — and noise — that comes with the races.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 1 June 2023
  • Near the causeway across the reservoir was a barricaded turnoff.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Gavalas was found dead by suicide days later by his father, who had to cut through his barricaded door.
    — Maggie Harrison Dupré, Futurism, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Encounter barricaded streets in your neighborhood for the first time, but not for the last.
    — Literary Hub, 20 Feb. 2026
  • An honor guard marched across a barricaded street and raised the Chinese flag.
    — Washington Post, 5 June 2019
  • The front door was also barricaded, and there were no other resident’s at the house.
    — David Matthews, New York Daily News, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Police determined the call was for a barricaded suspect with a hostage.
    — Fernanda Figueroa, Austin American-Statesman, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Pelosi's staff hides in a barricaded conference room for hours as rioters trash her office suite.
    — Sarah D. Wire, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2025
  • As the two competitors came back toward the ring, Reigns jumped over the barricaded and clobbered both men.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 20 Apr. 2025
  • The second most common is a barricaded suspect, whether holding a hostage or not, Kyle said.
    — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Some lie in a sewage canal; others are on the ground or the retaining walls just outside of the airport’s barricaded perimeter.
    — Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2021
  • An honor guard marched across a barricaded road and raised the Chinese flag as the national anthem played.
    — Ken Moritsugu, USA TODAY, 4 June 2019
  • The woman who was killed was part of a crowd that was breaking down the doors to a barricaded room where armed officers stood on the other side, police said.
    — Lisa Mascaro, Star Tribune, 7 Jan. 2021
  • Officials said crews responded to reports of an armed, barricaded man inside a home.
    — Austin Turner, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Days later, Joel Gavalas cut through a barricaded door at his home and found his son dead, according to the filing.
    — Jennifer Elias, CNBC, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The barricaded section of dirt track was on Williams’ property, but Sproul used it to reach the far outposts of his own land.
    — oregonlive, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Hundreds of voters waited up to six hours in a line that wrapped around the embassy for a whole block and zigzagged along barricaded corridors set up by police.
    — Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2024
  • But this one’s real — or real enough, judging by the barricaded doors of the empty egg cooler at Costco.
    — Jeff Burkhart, The Mercury News, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Police say drones are useful to monitor hostage situations or get a clear view of a barricaded suspect.
    — Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2024
  • And, armed and likely unstable, he was found dead after exchanging fire with police who burst through a barricaded door to confront him.
    — Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Back in the barricaded room with McConnell aides, one staffer began snapping photos through a window.
    — Karoun Demirjian, Star Tribune, 10 Jan. 2021
  • In the streets, the air-raid sirens scream as surging civilians surround a barricaded underground train station, trying to get the police to let them in.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Exchange students preparing to leave the city drag suitcases down the barricaded access road.
    — Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Her son remained barricaded inside the home for several hours before he was taken into custody.
    — Todd Feurer, CBS News, 4 Apr. 2026
  • The suspect remains barricaded inside the home and has continued to fire from the location, Smith said.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Babbitt was climbing through the broken window of a barricaded door to the Speaker’s Lobby when she was shot.
    — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The police standoff at the Lithonia home lasted hours and ended with deputies shooting the barricaded suspect.
    — Dan Raby, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Hundreds of people had gathered on campus, both inside a barricaded tent encampment and outside of it in support.
    — CBS News, 2 May 2024
  • As Dewar and the others hunkered down behind a barricaded door, Cox — still outside the room — was killed by the gunman.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 31 May 2023
  • As police scoured the area for the shooter, many students remained barricaded in rooms while others hid behind furniture and bookshelves.
    — Arkansas Online, 15 Dec. 2025

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