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Example sentences for "barricaded"

Lexicographically close words:
barren; barrenness; barrens; barrer; barricade; barricades; barricading; barricadoed; barrick; barricks
  1. Every preparation had been made for an attack, and another street was strongly barricaded by large wooden beams.

  2. All were well armed, and the balconies of the houses had been strengthened by breastworks, the streets barricaded by heaps of earth, and intersected by deep holes, so as to render our horse useless.

  3. Why had they during the last three days barricaded the streets, intersected the latter by deep holes, and fortified the tops of their houses with breastworks?

  4. He arrived at the studio in the afternoon, and, laying in provisions, barricaded the lower door.

  5. I slipped round to the front, went in, barricaded the door, and groped up to bed.

  6. At each loop-hole in the barricaded windows of his house and almacen he placed three men, two of whom were to load while the other fired; his own company of Patricios he stationed on the azotea and took command of them himself.

  7. And each subdivision will be separated from the next by a block of barricaded houses 140 yards long," interrupted Evana.

  8. On the left are the Rue Dirigeon l’Ecart and the Rue Lefèvre-Maugras, which were also barricaded by the Germans.

  9. On the 12th, after an artillery duel which did great damage, the French carried the level-crossing at Fismettes, which had been barricaded by the Germans, together with the railway station and neighbouring houses.

  10. The lower hinge of one side of the barricaded door gave, burned out, and the door wrenched inward at a resumption of the battering.

  11. Through the shouts and batterings at the barricaded door came a new sound--from another direction.

  12. They scaled the wire fence which barricaded the embankment, and cut across the long parallel lines of rails like frisky colts.

  13. There they barricaded themselves and awaited his coming.

  14. People barricaded themselves in the houses; wives and mothers were alarmed, and nothing else but this was heard, "Oh heavens!

  15. The day of his death, I barricaded myself in my own house, and only left it for one instant in order to join the King at his promenade in the gardens.

  16. When he was alone with her, the doors were all guarded and barricaded to keep out intruders.

  17. He shut the door upon her; barricaded her within, and through the door quarrelled with her, even to abuse, for an hour, during which she had the patience to remain there without being able to see him.

  18. Five or six months afterwards Seron, private physician of Louvois, barricaded himself in his apartment at Versailles, and uttered dreadful cries.

  19. Wrapped in a fur cloak, and barricaded behind an umbrella, she vowed there was nothing to see.

  20. Anne barricaded herself amongst the small luggage, and warned off Hugh, who wandered round disconsolate.

  21. I could not approach within a mile, you were so barricaded with Abbes and Marquises, but you of course occupied all my thoughts.

  22. The beggars barricaded themselves inside their houses, and blazed away at us at short range, and then, of course, our people began to drop.

  23. After a short defence the exterior wall was abandoned, and the Vendéans retreated to the château, within which they barricaded themselves.

  24. The sound of the gate barricaded against him gave a painful shock to Michel's heart.

  25. But as I now go over the Lauterhoehe, having business in the new clearing on the other side, my path is barricaded by fallen trees, lying about in wild confusion, split and criss-crossed in every direction.

  26. In doing this, they were again seized with a mischievous idea; they barricaded the place with rakes and pitchforks.

  27. But the old man's bed was still barricaded with rakes and pitchforks, and the food remained untouched.

  28. And he shut himself up in his house and barricaded it, he paced the empty apartments with the restless impatience of a caged wild beast, going from room to room to make sure that all the doors and windows were securely fastened.

  29. The entrance is barricaded with slabs of stone.

  30. All the windows were closed and, as it were, barricaded with solid shutters.

  31. Citizen Broquet shut himself up in the house, barricaded the doors, fortified the walls and, when Charles d'Ernemont was at last set free and appeared outside, received him by firing a musket at him.

  32. The broken old washstand had been of valuable service during the night, as with it I barricaded the door, innocent of any lock or key.

  33. Just as I had barricaded my door and gone to rest on my sofa about nine o'clock, the big siege gun suddenly boomed out its tremendous discharge, causing the whole house to shake and everything in the room to jingle.

  34. I drove over at once to prove the truth of their statements; of course, I found they were all false, except the fact of the station-master having returned to the barricaded and desolate station.

  35. The yellow lamplight threw gloomy shadows about the barricaded room.

  36. The window was barricaded on the outside!

  37. The mob broke their array, and rushed also to seize the house; but the police were first there, and barricaded it with the furniture and such other materials as were at hand.

  38. We resolved to make the defences doubly strong, being convinced that the position was capable of being barricaded and fortified so as to resist the invaders we dreaded.

  39. Muzazîr, entrenched within its mountain ranges, was accessible only by one or two dangerous passes; Urzana had barricaded these, and believed himself in a position to defy every effort of the Assyrians.

  40. What shall we say of him, except that he was barricaded in, and has been barricaded out?

  41. The houses were barricaded and the Germans feared snipers.

  42. The ram was used to batter in the doors of houses which had been locked or barricaded against the German soldiers.

  43. Of these, five were sick and probably at this moment barricaded in the forecastle.

  44. I turned as soon as I had locked and barricaded the door, and saw him lying on his face--quite dead.


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