stockade

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Recent Examples of stockade The Rufus Putnam House was part of the original stockade. Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 15 July 2024 Some suggest the logs' close location means they were used as a type of stockade. Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 15 July 2024 Trantalis predicts the stockade will end up opening its doors to the homeless one way or another. Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 27 June 2024 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 See All Example Sentences for stockade
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Noun
  • The complaints at Lee mirror accounts from what was then a federal penitentiary, USP Thomson in Illinois, especially the overuse of four-point restraints.
    Christie Thompson, NPR, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Lamberth also noted that there are only about 16 transgender women housed in female penitentiaries, including the three plaintiffs who sued.
    Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Wedding served a four-year jail sentence after agreeing to forfeit more than $121,000 seized during an airport sting and agreeing to drop an appeal of his conviction.
    Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Both suspects were arrested and booked into main jail.
    Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The two were later tried separately, with Lori being sentenced to life in prison without parole and Chad, who was part of a doomsday cult, sentenced to death, also for the murder of Lori's two kids and his first wife.
    Jordana Comiter, People.com, 8 Mar. 2025
  • In prison, McTiernan interviewed many of his fellow inmates to gather their stories and testimonies.
    Maelle Beauget-Uhl, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Even if one of the arriving Republic cruisers is probably about to scoop him up and throw him into a proper brig.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Meanwhile, any question that Jod and Captain Silvo (the pirate whose crew mutinied in the series premiere) are one and the same was dismissed, when Brutus and his crew spoke of how Silvo had escaped the brig before facing a trial.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 10 Dec. 2024

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“Stockade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stockade. Accessed 15 Mar. 2025.

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