BARRICADE in a Sentence

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1. Her lassitude helped on the barricade.
2. The fans were kept back behind barricades.
3. The enormous barricade felt him on its haunches.
4. The soldiers barricaded the streets to prevent an attack.
5. She served the barricade as she would have served wine, with a sleepy air.

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barricade
 n.  obstacle; a line or pile of objects put together to stop people from going
Classic Sentence: (193 in 13 pages)
1  Mavot was killed on the following day at the barricade of the Rue Menilmontant.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER III—A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN
2  On a single point the inhabitants resisted, at the corner of the Rue Sainte-Avoye and the Rue Simon-Le-Franc, where they destroyed the barricade with their own hands.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV—THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS
3  At a single point the insurgents yielded; they abandoned a barricade begun in the Rue de Temple after having fired on a detachment of the National Guard, and fled through the Rue de la Corderie.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV—THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS
4  The detachment picked up in the barricade a red flag, a package of cartridges, and three hundred pistol-balls.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV—THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS
5  At the barricade of the Rue des Menetriers, a well-dressed man distributed money to the workmen.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV—THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS
6  At the barricade of the Rue Grenetat, a horseman made his appearance and handed to the one who seemed to be the commander of the barricade what had the appearance of a roll of silver.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV—THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS
7  A light-haired young man, without a cravat, went from barricade to barricade, carrying pass-words.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV—THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS
8  The reader will remember all that has been said about the barricade effected at this point, and eclipsed, by the way, by the barricade Saint-Merry.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION
9  It was on this famous barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, now fallen into profound obscurity, that we are about to shed a little light.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION
10  "To make a barricade," replied Courfeyrac.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES
11  Her lassitude helped on the barricade.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER III—NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE
12  She served the barricade as she would have served wine, with a sleepy air.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER III—NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE
13  Enjolras, who was standing on the crest of the barricade, gun in hand, raised his beautiful, austere face.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER III—NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE
14  This last barricade, which was very narrow, was constructed only of casks and paving-stones.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER IV—AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP
15  The enormous barricade felt him on its haunches.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER IV—AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP
Example Sentence:
1  Marius and his fellow students hurriedly improvised a rough barricade to block police access to the students' quarter.
2  Will you join in our crusade? Who will be strong and stand with me? Somewhere beyond the barricade Is there a world you long to see?
3  The soldiers barricaded the streets to prevent an attack.
4  They hurriedly fortified the village with barricades of carts, tree trunks and whatever came to hand.
5  The fans were kept back behind barricades.
6  Opposition demonstrators have erected barricades in roads leading to the parliament building.