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Example sentences for "barricading"

Lexicographically close words:
barrens; barrer; barricade; barricaded; barricades; barricadoed; barrick; barricks; barrier; barriers
  1. Binding up a cleft stick or tree a mode of barricading the road against a ghostly pursuer, xi.

  2. As he spoke, he rushed, sword in hand, upon the Turks, and driving them back, succeeded in barricading himself in his apartments.

  3. This is an immense building, barricading the wharf from the town.

  4. Preparations had also been made for barricading that, should it become necessary.

  5. People were barricading their houses, and men were running in that direction.

  6. He and our men are safe inside; they're barricading the stable door.

  7. And meanwhile, till timber is here collected, I and the captain will begin the barricading with furniture.

  8. Shutting themselves up in the houses, and barricading the doors and windows, they defended themselves desperately, refusing all offers of surrender.

  9. Some of the barricading planks and forms were torn down, others riddled with bullets.

  10. When night came again the barricading was repeated, though there was less huddling together of families.

  11. Barricading serves not: fly fast, ye Bodyguards; rabid Insurrection, like the hellhound Chase, uproaring at your heels!

  12. They were now engaged in barricading the door so that it could be forced open only a few inches, thus exposing the attackers to a deadly fire.

  13. Removing the barricading chair, I unlocked and unbolted the door and passed out, closing it after me.

  14. The little party turned in again, noting that the planks and chests for screwing up and barricading the door through which they passed were ready for use as soon as the necessity came.

  15. And what about barricading the two doors?

  16. The little incident of throwing the empty barrel against the door, called to the attention of the defenders of the ranch the necessity of barricading it.

  17. With anxious hearts, they removed the barricading sacks from the door and prepared for what might come.

  18. Aware of this movement, the Byrnes prepared in the ravine of Ballyellis a well-laid ambuscade, barricading with carts and trees the farther end of the pass.

  19. He lost no time in barricading the gates, and, slipping through his garden with his servants and his family, escaped across the Bosphorus to the Jali Kiosk, on the other side of the water.

  20. I felt along, seeing a bit now, and was soon passing my hands over the barricading planks of that door.

  21. So, barricading every opening, the old man sat down sternly in the middle of the darkened cafe with an old shot-gun on his knees.

  22. Nostromo, after barricading the door and closing the shutters carefully, groped upon a shelf for a candle, and lit it.

  23. Duchesneau, in barricading his house and arming all his servants, and in coming three weeks ago to insult me in my room.

  24. When Shabbona, Pype-gee and Pypes made their famous ride, the panic-stricken settlers along these rivers generally flocked to the stockades, barricading their homes as best they could.

  25. At a place called Warrasqueake, a Mr. Baldwin stood off about fifty braves with his musket, and by barricading himself in his house finally drove the savages away single-handed.

  26. Barricading themselves in the strongest farmhouses, they fought a desultory battle all through the day, but next morn six persons were found dead in an outlying log house, which was farther from the protection of the village.

  27. The fools are barricading the door," he shouted.

  28. The stones and beams that had composed it were employed in barricading the streets.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "barricading" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.