barricade

She wasn’t expecting to find herself on the opposite side of a barricade from people she had spent much of her adult life marching alongside.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

A police barricade separated him from Ms. Townsend and other spectators outside his house.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Community police officers and “autodefensas” stand guard at the main barricade of San Ángel Zurumucapio, monitoring people leaving or entering the community.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

Yoni Finlay, who was hit by a stray police bullet while helping to barricade the doors during the attack, will also speak at the service.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

So the Sixers gave up on their barricade, but they continued to send avatars into the Tomb of Horrors to farm copies of the Copper Key.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

After sending an unmanned ground vehicle into the tunnel, Khartiia soldiers saw that Russian troops had created sandbag barricades dotted with machine guns at points throughout the structure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

In the Indian capital, police—who were deployed starting before dawn—stopped vehicles and pedestrians at yellow metal barricades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

The Whelford resident said she had noticed an "uneasiness in the air" in the the days leading up to the incident, alongside extra concrete barricades around the airbase.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

They constructed elaborate barricades with concrete, sandbags and razor wire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

There were barricades on the main roads leading into the ruins.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

At Rome's occupied Morgagni high school, where students have barricaded entrances with desks, protesters pointed to the crumbling infrastructure as evidence of neglect.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

On Sunday, access to the airbase at the airport, where the mutineers had barricaded themselves in, and to the presidency, was once again open, residents said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

A city centre, once so scarred by sectarian violence that it was barricaded off every night, was turned into one big, pedestrianised stage to showcase all its traditions.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

By the time deputies arrived, the suspect had barricaded himself inside his home, authorities said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026

The Ridgefolk had been either sedated, hauled away, or barricaded behind stone doors.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

On Monday, authorities closed schools and colleges for two days and imposed restrictions on public movement by barricading many arterial roads.

From Barron's ● Mar. 2, 2026

When officers arrived, they detained one suspect immediately, but the second suspect was inside the manhole and refused to come out, barricading himself, said Officer Tony Im, a spokesperson for the Police Department.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2026

After his late-night speech announcing the decree, opposition MPs and protesters converged on the National Assembly, but were met by police and military personnel barricading the building.

From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2024

An emergency alert was issued and sirens sounded just two minutes later, issuing a lockdown warning that left worried students and staff barricading themselves inside dorms, bathrooms, classrooms and gyms.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2023

“Voldemort’s on his way, they’re barricading the school—Snape’s run for it—What are you doing here? How did you know?”

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling