barricade
IPA: bˈærʌkeɪd
noun
- A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence
- An obstacle, barrier, or bulwark.
- (figuratively, in the plural) A place of confrontation.
- (figuratively) At live music concerts with a standing “pit” section, refers to standing physically right next to or in front of the barricade protecting the stage, thus being the closest audience members to the performing act.
verb
- to close or block a road etc., using a barricade
- to keep someone in (or out), using a blockade, especially ships in a port
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Examples of "barricade" in Sentences
- They must stay behind the barricade.
- The students build a barricade in the street.
- The mob passed by after seeing the barricade.
- Marius is the only survivor from the barricade.
- The info on the screen says barricade malfunction.
- The policemen at the barricade ran to the passenger side.
- It was its futile attempt to wangle through the barricade.
- In 1848, he fought in the barricades in the French uprising.
- The barricade was the rampart, the wine-shop was the dungeon.
- There the leading citizens barricaded themselves in the granary.
- But the problem on either side of the barricade is always content.
- Barricade is the commander of the team and pushes the other members.
- In the barricade is a closet, click on the bottomright of it to close up.
- He got close to the police barricade, which is just a few hundred yards from the Dirksen Senate Building.
- Beyond the barricade was a little meadow, shoulder deep in a curious grass with bristly heads which grew very thickly.
- An avalanche had dropped there; the barricade was the debris of the torn cliffs, their dust, their pebbles, their boulders.
- Marius hesitated to believe that the Fauchelevent of the barricade was the same as this Fauchelevent in flesh and blood, sitting so gravely beside
- The barricade was a more difficult matter, as it had to be made full in front of the enemy's fire; but it was contrived with wonderful coolness and rapidity, the civilians about eagerly bringing stones.
- Each barricade is an investigation of both fortification and subversion; designing for the defense of each checkpoint, while simultaneously attempting to undermine it’s perceived raison d'être through a means of confrontation, provocation, or absurdism.