barracks

Example Sentences

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She shared it with her sister and other women who slept on boards stacked up in the barracks.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

For decades, proportional response functioned less as a strategy than a ritual: hit a transmitter, strike a barracks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

He had only seen her once since his arrest, in the immediate aftermath of his detention when she followed him to the barracks where he was initially held.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026

Besides the chapel, they are a trolley station, a wing of barracks and the superintendent’s and governor’s residences.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

And yet in spite of sorrow and anxiety—and no one in that place was without both—there was laughter, too, in the Phillips barracks.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom