They stormed the barricade. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
But the problem on either side of the barricade is always content. From Wordnik.com. [Salvatore Quasimodo - Nobel Lecture] Reference
The barricade was the rampart, the wine-shop was the dungeon. From Wordnik.com. [Les Misérables] Reference
In the barricade is a closet, click on the bottomright of it to close up. From Wordnik.com. [Jay is Games] Reference
He got close to the police barricade, which is just a few hundred yards from the Dirksen Senate Building. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 18, 2008] Reference
The only object in the room heavy enough to serve as a barricade was the bed, and it was too heavy for me to move. From Wordnik.com. [A Fool and His Money] Reference
So we are back to the politics of the burning barricade, which is real enough for those who enjoy that sort of thing. From Wordnik.com. [Slugger O'Toole] Reference
Beyond the barricade was a little meadow, shoulder deep in a curious grass with bristly heads which grew very thickly. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Star — and what It saw on Its Journey through the Ages] Reference
An avalanche had dropped there; the barricade was the debris of the torn cliffs, their dust, their pebbles, their boulders. From Wordnik.com. [The Metal Monster] Reference
Storage buildings, padlocked and closed up, made a kind of barricade between the open fields and the edge of town. From Wordnik.com. [The Lark And The Wren]
Sharpe pushed into the room where the animals were kept and saw a wooden trough that would serve as some kind of barricade in the passage. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Rifles]
I had pulled up a chintz-covered armchair and a table to form a kind of barricade before me. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Room] Reference
I had pulled up a chintz-covered arm-chair and a table, to form a kind of barricade before me, and on this lay my revolver ready to hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories] Reference
"barricade" would surely tumble down - Kim's works convey a sense of anxiety, isolation and melancholy. From Wordnik.com. [Search for "depression"] Reference
We reached the final barricade before the airport. From Wordnik.com. [Roadblocks and Riots] Reference
She was standing behind the barricade, shouting at him. From Wordnik.com. [The Fountain] Reference
I take a few unsteady steps around my shoebox barricade. From Wordnik.com. [Dancing Shoes] Reference
He and his colleagues at the barricade decide to let us pass. From Wordnik.com. [Yugoslavia: Clashes In Kosovo] Reference
A barricade was erected to keep people back from the entrance. From Wordnik.com. [The Fountain] Reference
He nodded at the cops as they allowed him through the barricade. From Wordnik.com. [The Fountain] Reference
That wasn't the case three homes downhill, beyond the police barricade. From Wordnik.com. [Investigators Seek Clues From Oddly Cobbled Pipe] Reference
In Warsaw, he greeted some real people along a rope line behind a barricade. From Wordnik.com. [West Wing Story: On The Road] Reference
It was not immediately clear if the fire and the barricade situation were related. From Wordnik.com. [Man barricades himself in NE] Reference
The old, too, often senselessly barricade themselves indoors against imagined crime. From Wordnik.com. [The Triumph Of The Psycho-Fact] Reference
As they approached the barricade they were quickly arrested and thrown into police vans. From Wordnik.com. [House Arrest] Reference
China, though, has crossed this barricade even more easily than it did the Himalayan peaks. From Wordnik.com. [The Good China] Reference
Donna was pushing her abdomen against the barricade and throwing her fist into the air at him. From Wordnik.com. [The Fountain] Reference
A police officer leaned against an unused barricade near city hall in Manhattan Wednesday night. From Wordnik.com. [The Offline Party] Reference
An hour or so later she made a second attempt, but once again her car was stopped at the barricade. From Wordnik.com. [House Arrest] Reference
A small boy, framed underneath a police barricade, gave a mortified yell, and tugged on his fathers trousers. From Wordnik.com. [The Thing on Marlow Street] Reference
To the chagrin of the Japanese, the battle of Shanghai proceeded slowly, street by street, barricade by barricade. From Wordnik.com. [Exposing The Rape Of Nanking] Reference
“The police did,” the locksmith tipped his head in the direction of the cops, who stood guarding the barricade. From Wordnik.com. [The Fountain] Reference
But what it takes to turn this tide is not like rocket science -- just a barricade of sandbags neatly stacked up in defiance. From Wordnik.com. [David Katz, M.D.: Nutritious Foods: Being Smarter Than the Average Bear] Reference
Although there are plans for a new tourist-friendly presidential plaza, the symbolism of the barricade was clear -- and disturbing. From Wordnik.com. [Still In The Line Of Fire] Reference
Sammy paused at the top of the boarding stairs and looked back at the barricade, trying to focus through the intervening precipitates. From Wordnik.com. [Ain't Comin' Back] Reference
And as they lifted the woman over the barricade in the middle of the interstate and laid her foot on the gurney, the gurney rolled away. From Wordnik.com. ['Covering Katrina' Probes Reporters' Ethical Dilemmas] Reference
Stuck behind a police barricade at the Ellipse, the grassy circle south of the White House, reporters turned to each other for information. From Wordnik.com. [Welcome To The White House] Reference
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