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How to use barricade in a sentence

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Schultz parked the Packard in someone's driveway and they both walked up to the policeman manning the barricade.
The window that was barred shut at the end of the hall was no barricade for Christine.
Word got through the village that the guy had been taken, and the entire village went out into the street and erected a barricade.
Groups of protesters tried to storm the embassy by charging the barbed-wire barricade that had been set up outside.
I dreamt I'd got so self-involved that my friends decided to teach me a lesson and I had to barricade myself into my house.
There was no law and order, even when the soldiers came and made a barricade with barbed wire outside the station.
Before that persistent low-spirit sensation totally takes over, here are a few ideas to put up a barricade against the dismalness.
Some demonstrators wore ghoulish masks as they stuck a green banner to a police barricade at the farm's entrance.
The moment came, and with the twelfth shot fired off, the bullets ceased and Johner drew back behind the barricade to reload his gun.
Not certain how to get past the human barricade, it scampered about for 10 minutes, before fleeing in the distinctive shape of a flounder.
Having passed the final barricade, Trachoma then struck the roof of the tunnel behind him, creating a small cave-in to seal his retreat.
I just put my foot down and went straight through the barricade, bins went flying everywhere.
They quickly covered the distance from the barricade to the sedan, weaving around police cruisers and unconsciously avoiding all officers.
Erected to keep the company from clear-cutting their land, the barricade is reportedly the longest-running in Canadian history.
Eventually the officer unhitches the barricade, and the Archimedean principle of crowd displacement does its work.
There was mayhem going on on the road outside as the road repair men did their best to barricade us all in whilst they patched our holes.
At Walthamstow High School for Girls the headmistress called in the police to barricade the young women in the school with police vans.
Over time, all the couples move towards the same corner where the women barricade their men.
A group of strangers barricade themselves into a house in order to escape from a horde of flesh-eating zombies.
Pulling out her camera and attaching the flash, she climbs out of the car and moves past the barricade.
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He piled them together in the centre of his ceil, and then hastened to barricade the second door he had attempted to force.
They were to shut the gates of the tontine, and barricade them with the coaches.
I wanted to end as I had begun, die as my father had died, as a rioter in a riot, as a barricader behind a barricade.
They had now a barricade that could not be easily broken, if but manfully defended.
A crowd had collected on the Champs lyses about thirty yards from the corner of our street, and was forming a barricade.
The officers had come forward to the barricade and were consulting together.
If you refuse to act with me, barricade the door between the bar and the north wing.
They swirled, eddied and formed a barricade between us and the armored men.
We could put up a barricade, though, and cut off the gassy part of the mine.
It was his intention to hail her from beyond the palisade, giving her the feeling of security which he imagined the stout barricade would afford.
We are strong enough to beat them off if we barricade the house.
This repulsive pillow was her especial property, being used as a weapon of defense, a barricade, or a stern preventive of too much slumber.
The pillow was gone, but there was a barricade, nevertheless, a natural one, raised by time absence, and change of heart.
After a pause it became evident that the barricade was being destroyed.
When Jane and Esmeralda found themselves safely behind the cabin door the Negress's first thought was to barricade the portal from the inside.
One felt that the chief of this barricade was a geometrician or a spectre.
They hacked down trees with their stone hatchets, and built a barricade.
In a short time there was quite a barricade along the regimental fronts.
The Willamette High School student was finishing his turn racing a homemade electric go-cart when he lost control of his car and barreled into a barricade.
We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss Hunter had described.
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