stanchion
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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
Teammate Aliyah Boston tried to console Clark as she walked to the basket stanchion and tapped her forehead against it before sitting down and covering her head with a towel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2025
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
He sat on the top deck with his back against a stanchion and composed a letter to Hatsue.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
Executives bided their time behind stanchions in a fully-occupied and grey-carpeted room with bright overhead lighting in the Congress Center, the event hub for the annual confab in Davos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
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
We’ve got rock formation under the channel near the stanchions to prevent a ship from getting anywhere close to it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2024
As a boy in Ketchikan, Alaska, Jackson Polys would help his father, the prominent Tlingit artist Nathan Jackson, carve totem poles behind rope stanchions while boatloads of tourists watched.
From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2023
Lanterns swung from iron stanchions along the river road, swaying when-the wind blew.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
They mustered eighteen in all, and in half an hour they were ironed in a row along the stanchioned rail of the torpedo-boat.
From The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility by Morgan Robertson
And the compass stanchioned on the bridge had gone along with a wave, stanchions and all.
From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Harry Kemp
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
The deck cabins, though yawning and seamed, were so firmly stanchioned that he could not drag out so much as a plank.
From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Bertram Mitford
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
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