stockade

Example Sentences

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“It was really a labor camp enforced with whipping and stockades and lots of corporal punishment,” Ethington said.

From Los Angeles Times

Still, the impoverished Aquilas and their retainers count on a sturdy stockade and constant vigilance to stay safe.

From Washington Post

She rescued dozens of Union prisoners of war and prevented them from being shipped to the Confederate stockade at Andersonville, Ga., which had a mortality rate of nearly 30 percent.

From Washington Post

Visitors tour the stockade, the Russian Orthodox chapel and a windmill like the one used by the settlers.

From New York Times

During much of his sentence, Epstein was allowed to leave the county’s minimum-security stockade 12 hours a day, six days a week, for a work-release program, a job at a nonprofit foundation he had created.

From Washington Post