How to Use bollard in a Sentence

bollard

noun
  • Trump has gone back and forth about whether the steel bollards on the border should be black.
    — Harold Maass, TheWeek, 7 May 2020
  • Strickland said the bollards would be used at some point this weekend.
    — Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Still, the steel bollards stacked near the cemetery were an ominous sign.
    — J. David Goodman, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Aiello believes the bollard fence planned for the area will be just as bad as wire over time.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2026
  • Tourists sit on a bollard at the Sydney Opera House.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 3 June 2026
  • There are no bollards to prevent access by a car at that location.
    — Sharon Otterman, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Two graphic grids have been erected on the two other sides of the site, and bollards will be set up all around.
    — Sylvie Corbet, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2018
  • The east end of the street is blocked by bollards screwed into receptacles.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Crews are installing 270 panels a day, each one with eight bollards.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2019
  • The man who paddleboards out to the bollards to hang the over-the-water hammocks.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2025
  • The bollards are meant to stand at each crosswalk along Bourbon Street.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Steel bollard gates loomed nearly as tall as the cottonwood trees beside them.
    — Erin Stone, The Arizona Republic, 14 Aug. 2020
  • The bollard, a common structural type of fencing, is already in use around the world.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Two are see-though, with bollard-type posts on the bottom section topped by a solid section.
    — Tribune News Service, NOLA.com, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Two are see-though — with bollard-type posts on the bottom section topped by a solid portion.
    — Greg Moran, latimes.com, 28 Oct. 2017
  • The firm reports that its bollards can stop semitrucks travelling up to 50 miles per hour.
    — Hadley Hitson, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Sep. 2025
  • For instance, on the bike path near me (the one with the switchback path), there are bollards at every entrance.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 14 June 2024
  • Included in the memo were photos of the bollards the vehicle struck.
    — Ken Dilanian, NBC News, 30 May 2023
  • Paint a big box around the space or, better yet, surround it with bollards, or planter boxes, or whatever.
    — Alex Davies, WIRED, 4 June 2018
  • The six-inch square bollards are hollow pipes that are mostly 30 feet tall (18 feet in a few places).
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Those posts, or bollards, are spaced 4 inches apart, allowing some small species to pass through but not large mammals.
    — Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 13 Dec. 2025
  • Trump's shift was primarily due to the preference of agents on the ground for the steel bollard design.
    — William Cummings, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2019
  • Still, the ban was phased in Saturday as workers placed steel bollards, or movable posts, at the ends of each block.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2023
  • Days after the second death, the city installed plastic bollards between bike and car traffic on the route.
    — Andrew Keatts, Axios, 27 July 2024
  • The remaining 11 are flush with the floor, like bollards, gravestones or flesh-and-blood people.
    — David Pagel, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2019
  • In February, blasting began on the hill to make way for the bollard fencing.
    — Rafael Carranza, The Arizona Republic, 27 Aug. 2020
  • After cutting through the base of a single bollard, smugglers can push the steel out of the way, creating an adult-size gap.
    — Nick Miroff, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Nov. 2019
  • Retractable bollards would have stopped last year’s rampage and still allowed traffic to flow freely for the remainder of the year.
    — William Wilkes, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Some, but not all, Brightline crossings have bollards or medians.
    — Brittany Wallman, Miami Herald, 18 Dec. 2025
  • The city also will place bollards near the corner of the intersections to slow down left turning drivers.
    — Andrew Kenney, The Denver Post, 24 Sep. 2019

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