How to Use palisade in a Sentence

palisade

noun
  • Pauger's plans called for the city to be fortified with palisades on all sides.
    — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 14 Dec. 2017
  • The homes, the stilts and the palisade burned and quickly collapsed into the river.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2019
  • The wood used to build its palisade had reportedly left telltale stains.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 24 Mar. 2021
  • In an ideal world the palisades would have their own mayor and police department.
    — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 15 Feb. 2026
  • The presence of the palisade, which brings up the ghosts of violent conflict, adds to the story of this hard life.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Perched on a rocky palisade high above the Danube, the castle is the area’s major tourist attraction.
    — John Gurda, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Nov. 2019
  • The 25-foot palisade of water pummeled her boat, spinning it it upside down.
    — Gregory Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 15 Aug. 2020
  • The first castles were merely earthen heaps surrounded by a wooden palisade wall.
    — William Gurstelle, Popular Mechanics, 11 Apr. 2019
  • The first castles were merely earthen heaps surrounded by a wooden palisade wall.
    — William Gurstelle, Popular Mechanics, 10 Aug. 2017
  • The compound was hidden behind a tall palisade of cactus and purple bougainvillea.
    — Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018
  • That’s why Travis assigned Crockett to the palisade, Foreman said.
    — Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Dec. 2021
  • It was surrounded by a palisade of wooden posts that eventually decayed, leading the mound to collapse.
    — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The optical illusion reminded early settlers of the blockades of wooden stakes, or palisades, built around forts to ward off threats.
    — Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
  • So, Jones says at this point, he is forced to conclude that the palisades have completely deteriorated beyond recovery.
    — Jennifer Coe, Courant Community, 18 May 2017
  • Somewhere, out there, beyond the immediate palisade, the fighting continues.
    — Alan Cowell, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Researchers also identified the remains of a square or quadrangular structure at the site, believed to be part of a palisade designed to force the tribes through two of the fords over the Tagus.
    — Fox News, 23 Apr. 2020
  • This vertical, rippling, palisade texture forms when long filaments from microbial mats that exist at the outflows of hot springs get entombed in silica sediment that is common in the water.
    — Fox News, 11 May 2017
  • Foreman said there’s not a more appropriate boundary for the Alamo to interpret than the palisade, which links the mission era to both sides of the war between Texas and Mexico.
    — Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Dec. 2021
  • Also discovered during excavation was physical evidence of a palisade, or defensive wall.
    — Hartford Courant, 19 May 2022
  • El Economista reported that archeologists have also found a wooden rectangular platform at the center with the imprint of 16 poles that created a kind of palisade.
    — J. Weston Phippen, The Atlantic, 3 July 2017
  • Over the course of the road trip Wu documented a variety of Bolivian landscapes ranging from sandy deserts to rocky palisades, but the Salar de Uyuni emerged as the highlight.
    — Wired, 16 Nov. 2019
  • The discovery of palisades suggests the settlement was fortified with thousands of spiked planks used as defensive barricades, but archaeologists are unsure why it was needed by villagers.
    — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The palisade started near the eastern terminus of the Great Wall and pushed to the northeast, ending somewhere between the contemporary cities of Changchun and Jilin.
    — Literary Hub, 14 Nov. 2025
  • In fact, hardly anything was built until the 1729 Natchez Indian uprising, after which authorities erected a palisade and dug a shallow moat.
    — Richard Campanella, NOLA.com, 10 May 2017
  • The palisade fabric is similarly unconvincing, Bosak says, because such rock crystal formations could form from non-biological causes, such as after an asteroid impact.
    — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 11 May 2017
  • Some of the palisade troughs researchers discovered were still intact upon excavation, Radio Prague International reports.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 28 Sep. 2022
  • In 2014, the regional nonprofit group SOS Sahel came to Barkadroussou and taught villagers to stabilize the dunes by building palisades of palm fronds.
    — Julie Bourdin, NPR, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Controlling passage through the palisade were twenty-one ornate gates, spaced approximately fifty kilometers apart, meant not only to curb immigration of Han Chinese and Koreans into Qing lands but also to limit movement of any natural resources out.
    — Literary Hub, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Characteristic of the late Bronze Age or Iron Age periods of European history, hillforts generally refer to fortified, elevated settlements that were surrounded by barriers—usually made of earth, stone or wooden palisades—that created an enclosure.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 10 Apr. 2026

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