How To Use Stockade In A Sentence

As surveyor and topographer, he took on the task of making sketches of the stockades.
In the frontier-land, fences and stockades announce intentions rather than mark realities.
A heavy stockade around the cabin protected the pioneer from attack.
These men promptly escaped from a maximum-security stockade to the Los Angeles underground.
The expedition constructed winter quarters, consisting of an enclosed stockade and barracks.

Linguix Browser extension

Fix your writing
on millions of websites

Get Started
For Free Watch how it works

Fortunately for the Kingdom forces, when they reached the wall, they found a wooden stockade. SHARDS OF A BROKEN CROWN
The farmstead had storage pits, drying frames and granaries, and was surrounded by a stockade.
Sirloin Stockade has a great dessert item -- hot fudge cake -- which is an undercooked brownie-like substance saturated with fudge sauce.
Corporal punishment and physical hazing of American soldiers was still permitted, including use of the stockade.
As surveyor and topographer, he took on the task of making sketches of the stockades.
There are no stockades or tipis, although the houses are a lot more humble and the fields a lot better tended than in neighbouring territory.
Entry into this inner stockade was by a single, permanently-manned gateway. RIOT
The stockade was a barrier of separation and distrust.
Trees that towered over prairie rivers were transformed into pirogues (hand-hewn canoes for trappers and traders), stockades for early military forts, and vigas or ceiling beams for adobe homesteads.
Europeans usually built defensive stockades immediately upon arrival in the New World in order to protect their foothold on the shore.
More pirates were starting to climb into the stockade.
The guards erected a line of fence in front of the stockade, and shot to kill any prisoner who crossed the line.
The summerhouse was a quaint stockade of dark madrono boughs thatched with red-wood bark, strongly suggestive of deeper woodland shadow. Maruja
Each lodge has luxury en suite accommodation in tents the size of bungalows, built on stilts under a roof of thatch, surrounded by an elephant-proof stockade.
The stockade performed so many favours for the town and outlying farms that it was quite okay by the townsfolk.
Though plantations were mini-states - with private jails, stockades and whipping posts - planters also depended on the army, judges, mayors and local constables to force workers to submit to their will.
Terraces and stockaded villages were scattered in the high mountains on both sides of the Nujiang River.
The stockade was designed to hold 10,000 prisoners and the first Union soldiers to arrive were housed and fed decently.
That is enough for my mind to start doing time in ‘Silver City,’ the stockade in the Philippines.
Another day and you would have been in the stockade.
The motte was an earthen mound, conical in shape and the bailey was a level area around the motte, both of which would have had a wooden stockade surrounding.
He reversed into the stockade in a cloud of dust, and spun around to face his enemy, flanks heaving. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
A British stockade stood at the border of the two neighborhoods, patrols leaving at regular intervals despite a recently declared cease-fire.
Entry into this inner stockade was by a single, permanently-manned gateway. RIOT
Tory backbenchers attempted to inflict more pain on the PM over budget cuts but he scuttled behind his stockade and caterwauled at them like an 80s class-warrior. A percentage game at PMQs
The other bank of the stream was open ground - a gentle slope topped with a stockade of vertical tree trunks, loopholed for rifles, with a single embrasure through which protruded the muzzle of a brass cannon commanding the bridge.
Sirloin Stockade has a great dessert item -- hot fudge cake -- which is an undercooked brownie-like substance saturated with fudge sauce.
His forty hungry men had just hung the gate on their little stockade on April 17 when the French advance force of 500 men and eighteen cannons debarked from pirogues and canoes, formed ranks, and marched toward the fort. George Washington’s First War
So, like a careful captain, Leif got his dried fish, his smoked deer - meat, his water casks, and his lumber by degrees all on board; he lit the watch fires as usual at sundown; but by moonrise, with the early tide he and his men slipped quietly out of their stockaded camp and into their vessel, and silently drifted out to sea before the warm land-wind that still was faintly blowing. The Iron Star — and what It saw on Its Journey through the Ages
A heavy stockade around the cabin protected the pioneer from attack.
White guys in the stockade had fringe benefits.
The goldfields rebellion did not last very long and government forces quickly overran the Eureka stockade.
When they began to encircle the livestock, the herdsmen attempted to drive the cattle into the stockade.
The motte was an earthen mound, conical in shape and the bailey was a level area around the motte, both of which would have had a wooden stockade surrounding.
These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Rhode Island underground.
Fortunately for the Kingdom forces, when they reached the wall, they found a wooden stockade. SHARDS OF A BROKEN CROWN
It must be almost impossible to transmit significant messages through that thorny stockade. FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
Here the pursuers burst in with them, and after getting in were beaten out by the Syracusans, and some few of the Argives and Athenians slain; after which the whole army retired, and having demolished the counterwork and pulled up the stockade, carried away the stakes to their own lines, and set up a trophy. The History of the Peloponnesian War
Rome's enemies had built wooden stockades and fortified villages well before Caesar and his legions set foot in Gaul or Britain.
The raid by guards on the stockade set up by diggers in the Victorian goldfields only lasted an hour.
The daimyo and their warriors also built numerous stockades, palisades, and barricades of wood.
A great deal of shouting, firing of guns, and circumgyration by the men who had come from the war just outside the stockade of Nkisiwa (which is surrounded by a hedge of dark euphorbia and stands in a level hollow) was going on as we descended the gentle slope towards it. The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death
She would spend a full thirty days in the county stockade.
The men on the stockade gripped their bows or boar-spears and stared somberly at the carack which swung inshore, its brass work flashing in the sun. The Conquering Sword Of Conan
The Malay weapons consist of the celebrated kris, with its flame-shaped wavy blade; the sword, regarded, however, more as an ornament; the parang, which is both knife and weapon; the steel-headed spear, which cost us so many lives in the Perak war; matchlocks, blunderbusses, and lelahs, long heavy brass guns used for the defense of the stockades behind which the Malays usually fight. The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
He put on the head-dress and war-cloak of the savage; and, taking the barrico on his shoulder, and the spear in his hand, the poles which barred the door were softly removed by William, and after ascertaining that no one was concealed beneath the palisades, Ready pressed William's hand, and set off across the cleared space outside of the stockade, and gained the cocoa-nut trees. Masterman Ready The Wreck of the "Pacific"
About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade
It looks as if we had run our fox to earth," cried Fred exultingly, as they made for the gateway of the high wooden stockade -- relic of the old fighting days -- which surrounded the _kainga_. Adventures in Many Lands
Three wooden guard towers ringed the apron, and a stockade fence joined the towers and ran from the innermost towers to clifflike sections of the mountain. Alector's Choice
A furious general had him arrested, tossed in the stockades and prepped for court-martial.
Being ‘light and young and active,’ he climbed up a travois leaning against the stockade and sprang over and into the willows.
The Malay weapons consist of the celebrated kris, with its flame-shaped wavy blade; the sword, regarded, however, more as an ornament; the parang, which is both knife and weapon; the steel-headed spear, which cost us so many lives in the Pêrak war; matchlocks, blunderbusses, and lelahs, long heavy brass guns used for the defence of the stockades behind which the Malays usually fight. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
Replicas of sections of the original stockade and the north gate stand as reminders of a prison facility that was a deadly home to thousands of Union soldiers.
A stockade provided protection for both people and animals.
Their trips ranged from traveling in the back of a convertible and staying in a nice hotel to long, hot bus rides and being lodged in a stockade, said Sandee McClammy, a baritone player from Mesquite, Texas.
He spent four years in hard labour in a stockade, wearing fetters.
The sheep were surrounded by stockade.
The sesquicentenary of the Eureka Stockade in Ballarat, Victoria, is due to be commemorated on December 3.
The only break in the stockade is a narrow passageway that zigzags up the middle.
Sirloin Stockade has a great dessert item -- hot fudge cake -- which is an undercooked brownie-like substance saturated with fudge sauce.
Here, landlords organized armed gangs, built stockades and forts, and fought their neighbours for land and irrigation water, terrorized their tenants, and usurped judicial rights.
The English learned from the French, however, building square stockades with corner bastions and crude barracks and storehouses, the men sleeping in pairs or trios head-to-foot, belabored by bedbugs, fleas, flies, ticks, and lice.2 George Washington’s First War
Perceiving their intention, the Syracusans began a second counterwork, consisting of a stockade and ditch, which started at the point of junction between the old city-wall and the new, and ran across the low swampy ground as far as the Anapus. Stories from Thucydides
He reversed into the stockade in a cloud of dust, and spun around to face his enemy, flanks heaving. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
A new stockade built in 1717 of wooden stakes quickly fell to ruin.
He spent just three days in a military stockade before President Nixon ordered his release.
It must be almost impossible to transmit significant messages through that thorny stockade. FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
The only break in the stockade is a narrow passageway that zigzags up the middle.
The art of fortification was lost in the West for many years after the collapse of the Roman empire, and local strongholds relied on stout stockades for defence.
Villages of 300 to 600 people were protected by a triple-walled stockade of wooden stakes 15 to 20 feet tall.
Both parties obeyed the order; Amyas dropped down behind the stockade in time to let a caliver bullet whistle over his head; and the Spaniards recoiled as the narrow face of the stockade burst into one blaze of musketry and swivels, raking their long array from front to rear. Westward Ho!
And presently the outer fringe of the Welsh camp became perceptible rather by the lingering intimations of humanity, the smoke of fires, the resinous odours of newly split wood in the lengths of stockade, even the mingled, murmurous sounds of such activity as persisted into the night, than by anything seen or clearly heard. His Disposition
Omata settlers abandoned their farms and rushed for the safety of New Plymouth or the Omata Stockade.
Yet, it can also be viewed as a justified military action against a stockaded settlement in a Native homeland.
The inhabitants huddle around huge log fires in timber halls protected by massive stockades.
The stockade which they were encamped in was a wonderful place.
On the outskirts of the town is Plimoth Plantation, an authentic reconstruction of America's first settlement, with its one-room timber houses and high stockades.
These men promptly escaped from a maximum-security stockade to the Southport Underground.
It was a queerly assorted embassy that rode out of the gates of the stockade, the ambassador and his linguister. The Frontiersmen
We'd been there for about a week, sat outside our teepee smoking weed, when suddenly there was this huge commotion at the stockade, and this motorbike comes haring down towards the lake.
One of the few remaining structures from the camp was the concrete stockade, a jail within an internment camp.
For example, his brutality is made out to be a personal thing rather than indicative of conditions in army stockades in general.
Rather than giving up on him and discharging him from the Army, he is released from the stockade to return for training.
Ahead of him, he could barely make out the camp and its wooden stockade around its borders, swaying in the wind as it was pelted with rain.
At this writing, he's still locked up, indefinitely and without charges, in some military stockade.
Bent took up residence with Titoko in the stockaded village of Te Ngutu-o-te-Manu (Beak of the Bird), the main stronghold of the Hauhau forces which would soon see some of the worst action of the war.
The other bank of the stream was open ground - a gentle slope topped with a stockade of vertical tree trunks, loopholed for rifles, with a single embrasure through which protruded the muzzle of a brass cannon commanding the bridge.
People were taken out of their homes and herded like cattle into stockades to await removal.
In front of the stockade, but some considerable distance from it, and on the sloping land that was nigh to the beach, we had thrown up a kind of intrenchment, behind which we could kneel and fire, and under whose cover we hoped to be able to make a good account of assailants. Marjorie
He reversed into the stockade in a cloud of dust.
They have also found evidence of Spanish jacales, room blocks in an octagonal pattern within the stockade wall.
Hurrying across the paved stone road, they came up to the gate of the wooden stockade wall.
Punishing the Pequots for the death of an English trader, Massachusetts militia attacked men, women, and children at the stockaded Mystic village, setting it ablaze and shooting escapees.
Instead, military records reveal he served as an ammo handler in the 25th Infantry Division and spent nearly a year in the stockade for being AWOL.
It is holding 360 captured fighters in Kandahar in an unsheltered stockade, exposed to the bitter winter cold.
Each lodge has luxury en suite accommodation in tents the size of bungalows, built on stilts under a roof of thatch, surrounded by an elephant-proof stockade.
The raid by guards on the stockade set up by diggers in the Victorian goldfields only lasted an hour.
Corporal punishment and physical hazing of American soldiers was still permitted, including use of the stockade.
The typical Slav village was surrounded by a wooden stockade.
Then finally -- it was dark outside, the hot still dark of summer's end, heat lightning aflicker beyond stockade and skeletal trees -- he summoned her; but when she entered the office, he rose and said: "Let us go to my private quarters. A Circus of Hells
In late 1854, self-employed miners and prospectors in the Victorian town of Ballarat rebelled against the government and set up an armed camp named the Eureka Stockade.

How To Use Stockade In A Sentence

Report a problem

Please indicate a type of error

Additional information (optional):