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stanchion

[stan-shuhn] / ˈstæn ʃən /


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Brooking's second goal is best remembered for getting lodged in the stanchion in the top corner of the net.

From BBC Jul. 6, 2026

That’s because it plans to run two lines simultaneously on either side of a new, shorter stanchion.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 15, 2025

He was visibly frustrated, hitting the padding on the basket stanchion.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 4, 2024

He landed near the basket stanchion and immediately began grabbing at his left knee, while teammates reacted in obvious disbelief.

From Washington Times Apr. 23, 2023

The ropes were slapping the mast and the boom was tangled in the stanchion ropes.

From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos

That means the end of those stainless-steel stanchions with numbers etched into them at the gate, where passengers today line up based on boarding position assigned at check-in and then pick any open seat.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 15, 2025

And you're funneled through a labyrinth of retractable stanchions like you’re about to meet a costumed mouse at Magic Kingdom, not a budtender named Jade.

From Salon Apr. 20, 2025

The show’s one disappointment is that almost all the photographs are roped off by wire stanchions erected low to the floor.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 7, 2023

The counter was one of the busiest areas of the supermarket — so busy that employees set up stanchions to guide the queue.

From Seattle Times Nov. 5, 2022

He observed that my gaze was fixed absently upon the stanchions, and after a time grew tired of waiting, and asked me what I thought of.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

In a time shorter than it takes to tell it, the two doomed men are made fast to the stanchioned chairs; where they sit bolt upright, firm as bollard heads.

From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Mayne Reid

The doors were closed, and the windows were stanchioned with iron.

From Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge by James Aitken Wylie

Such a one stands in the centre, its legs fixed in the floor, with four chairs around it, similarly stanchioned.

From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Mayne Reid

To that was shackled a seventy-five foot boom, and eighty-odd tons of pig-iron were cemented close down to her keel, and that floored over and stanchioned snug.

From The Seiners by James B. (James Brendan) Connolly

Tom Peel understood his business; he had every door barred and stanchioned, and the windows protected, as well as the means to his hand would allow.

From The O'Ruddy A Romance by C. D. (Charles D.) Williams




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