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How to use barricades in a sentence

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A few arrests were made when protesters tried to break through barricades set up within two blocks of the Garden along the march route.
The latest outrage was the encirclement of the city, cutting it off and isolating it from its environment through barricades.
As with any structure, only vigilance, guards, and barricades could prevent such attacks.
The protests were explosions of anger in which typically anywhere between 500 and 1,000 protesters blocked busy roads with burning barricades.
At sunrise, a large crowd advances toward wooden barricades erected to protect storefronts and bystanders.
Missiles were thrown, petrol bombs were hurled, barricades were erected, cars were set alight and so on.
There were similar protests across the world, including Berlin, where bonfires were lit on the streets and barricades erected to fend off police.
The jobless workers have threatened to set up barricades to prevent movement in and out of the refineries.
Most of the barricades erected by militant supporters of Aristide were removed and streets were empty.
The daimyo and their warriors also built numerous stockades, palisades, and barricades of wood.
Security forces intervened when youths threw burning tyres into the streets and tried to erect barricades.
Impromptu barricades were erected from urban junk in order to protect the crowd trying to evacuate the area.
The frolicsome maidens of the early tapestries end as victims and victimizers on the barricades.
In some neighbourhoods, residents erected street barricades of tiles, huge rocks and sandbags to keep looters out.
Fireworks went off, barricades were removed and crowd marshals went home as the thousands and thousands of people swarmed onto the bridge.
Sounding like a harpy from the barricades of Paris, Her Ladyship preached wholesale war on Dukes and Earls.
These include barricades and vehicle chicanes and checkpoints outside the SECDET as well as internal defences.
Under the right conditions, barricades of trees reverberated a shout with an echo.
Access to the quarter is controlled by police barricades, and security at the fenced-off US embassy is very tight.
Police with guns and batons lined the way, together with armoured vehicles, razor wire and concrete barricades.
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Examples from Classical Literature
And great barricades of ice still in the rivers blocking them up, and ponding them.
They were erecting barricades in the streets, and mounting these guns upon them.
This conflagration forced us to leave the barricades of the rues de Flandre and Riquet.
They erected defensive barricades of self-aggrandizement and of my devaluation.
Should they break through our barricades, slash at the horses with your scythes.
But as it was meant to be winding down, about 100 youths tried to push past police barricades.
They now knew that it required but one hour to take up arms again and one night to reconstruct the barricades.
What a churlish idea it was to erect these barricades, Miss Dill!
Russian thistles were blowing across the uplands and piling against the wire fences like barricades.
Are you aware that the mob have even suggested throwing up barricades in the Rue Saint Denis and the Rue Saint Antoine?
Before dark the rioting was general, and barricades were going up.
After arriving at the Ferry Building at noon via motorcade, Caen strolled to the stage as onlookers pressed against the barricades.
By his advice a decree from parliament summoned the citizens to lay down their arms and demolish the barricades.
In Yokohama appeared barricades, the black flag and the social revolution.
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