How to Use stockade in a Sentence

stockade

noun
  • The four cow-calf pairs would spend the night in a pen that looked like a little stockade.
    — Jason Florio, Smithsonian, 22 May 2018
  • Some suggest the logs' close location means they were used as a type of stockade.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 15 July 2024
  • The series of post holes show a wavy wall and a curve that may be the northwest corner of the stockade.
    — Mike Argento, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Hey, that’s not how my church asks for volunteers to stand in stockades on top of a taco truck and repent.
    — Margaret Lyons and James Poniewozik, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2016
  • Past this stockade of behavior, little of an inner life can get out.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Trantalis predicts the stockade will end up opening its doors to the homeless one way or another.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 27 June 2024
  • In the middle of this expanse, a stockade, where sheep were gathered at night to protect them from bears and coyotes, had collapsed.
    — Thomas McGuane, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Soldiers abandoned their positions and ran into the stockade.
    — Gillian Brockell, Washington Post, 4 July 2017
  • He was sentenced to 13 months in jail but was allowed to leave the county stockade on most days and spend the day in his private office.
    — Tom Hays, The Denver Post, 25 July 2019
  • Nearby is a photo opp for those with naughty friends or relatives – an old-style stockade found in those times as a punishment for transgressors.
    — Mark Eades, Orange County Register, 10 May 2017
  • Those posts formed the outline of the stockade that, at one time, may have housed some 1,200 British prisoners of war.
    — Mike Argento, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Those posts formed the outline of the stockade that, at one time, may have housed some 1,200 British prisoners of war.
    — The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The wooden stockade and stick-and-mud buildings disintegrated, and the ground was plowed under as part of a plantation.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Visitors tour the stockade, the Russian Orthodox chapel and a windmill like the one used by the settlers.
    — Graham Bowley, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2019
  • Percival is successfully in the stockade and locked in Veronica's vault by wedding time!
    — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 27 June 2022
  • Martin Callinan’s great-great-great-grandfather was an Irish miner who fought at the stockade.
    — Damien Cave, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Next spring, Crawmer and other researchers hope to determine the full size of the stockade and perform a focused search for artifacts within and around it.
    — Mark Scolforo, ajc, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The initial agreement stipulated that Epstein leave the stockade only to work in his office or visit the doctor.
    — Skyler Swisher, sun-sentinel.com, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Fines date back to the Middle Ages, when feudal lords would let people pay to get out of their stockades – an alternative to being in custody.
    — Courtney E. Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Crawmer said there is evidence the vertical posts that formed the security stockade weren't in the ground for very long and that they may have been dug up and reused after the camp was closed in 1783.
    — CBS News, 28 Oct. 2022
  • October 2008 - Epstein begins work release from the county stockade.
    — Fox News, 18 July 2019
  • County Administrator Bertha Henry said the stockade is the only backup jail if overcrowding forces the county to seek more jail space.
    — Larry Barszewski, Sun-Sentinel.com, 9 May 2017
  • Using ancient post holes as a guide, a stockade has been reconstructed around the periphery of Aztalan, giving visitors a fleeting sense of this ancient city’s dimensions.
    — David Hammond, chicagotribune.com, 21 July 2017
  • Shaken, Washington rushed back to Great Meadows and ordered the construction of a stockade in anticipation of a French attack.
    — Gillian Brockell, Washington Post, 4 July 2017
  • Geronimo, his fighters and their families were held in military stockades in Florida and Alabama before arriving at their final prison at Fort Sill.
    — Matthew Farwell, The New Republic, 3 July 2019
  • The county saw large-scale civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s and drew national attention for imprisoning dozens of African American girls in a squalid stockade for months and charging four other activists with treason.
    — Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2019
  • Records released this month show Epstein was given an array of special privileges, from an unlocked cell in a special wing of the stockade, to a work-release schedule of six days a week, up to 12 hours per day, at a West Palm Beach office building.
    — Marc Freeman, sun-sentinel.com, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Anthony set sail for New Amsterdam in 1629, and before long acquired a large farm just north of the city stockade at Wall Street, along with a reputation as one of the most quarrelsome characters in a town full of them.
    — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2019
  • At the time, Epstein was serving his 18-month sentence in the Palm Beach County stockade but was allowed to spend 12 hours a day, six days a week, in his office under a work-release program his attorneys had negotiated.
    — Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2026

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