stanchion

Example Sentences

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He had a ferocious one-handed dunk off a Doncic assist that got Hayes so amped up that he head-butted the basket stanchion in celebration.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2025

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

The debris was determined to be part of a stanchion used to mount batteries on a cargo pallet.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2024

During red-zone drills, Wentz threw a dart into the back of the end zone, and Cole Turner dived for it, accidentally going headfirst into the field goal stanchion.

From Washington Post • Aug. 1, 2022

But on a snowy night in the early 1980s, a car skidded into a stanchion, which hit him in the back.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times