barricaded

Example Sentences

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He then barricaded the man in the shop with a shopping trolley, as a bystander called the police.

From BBC • May 3, 2026

The restaurant owner let a few people inside and then barricaded the doors.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026

Ahead of the Lyon rally, some residents living near the march's planned route had barricaded the ground floor windows of their apartments, fearing unrest.

From Barron's • Feb. 21, 2026

Uncollected garbage barricaded the drainage ditches that encased their neighborhood.

From Salon • Dec. 16, 2025

Times Square had been barricaded off and converted into a temporary CDC—Centers for Disease Control—compound, complete with portable labs.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda