Example sentences for: barricades

How can you use “barricades” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He also takes whacks at those old chestnuts and/or and ss . Under the heaviest duress, such as the threat of boiling in ink, lawyers might relinquish all these; but they will fight to the bitter end and finally die at the barricades before surrendering their whereases . Never mind that, the author says; Whereas is consistently vague, meaning variously `the fact is,' `although,' `considering that,' `on the contrary,' and `that being the case,' with many shadings in between.

  • A Rolodex she crossed barricades to retrieve in the days after Sept. 11 is headed for the trash.

  • The catch is that the "classes" glowering at each other across the barricades aren't rich and poor.

  • But were the Philistines at the barricades allowed inside, I fear they would find little to stoke their fury--or hold their interest.

  • The Times describes how the largest crowd Clinton ever spoke to--some half a million Ghanians--surged against the barricades, threatening to "overwhelm the president."


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