barricaded
adjective
bar·ri·cad·ed
ˈber-ə-ˌkā-dəd 
ˈba-rə-;
ˌber-ə-ˈkā-,
ˌba-rə-
: protected or blocked by a barricade
a barricaded building
a barricaded street/door
Examples of barricaded in a Sentence
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Trump's allies show up for support The police prepared for huge throngs of Trump's supporters to rally outside the Manhattan courthouse during the trial, going as far as to set up a barricaded section, but the crowds were small.
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Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 30 May 2024
Though hundreds of officers descended on the elementary school on May 24, 2022, none confronted the shooter for 77 minutes, wrongly treating the situation as one with a barricaded suspect instead of an active threat even as children and teachers pleaded with 911 dispatchers for help.
—Lomi Kriel, ProPublica, 23 May 2024
Police say drones are useful to monitor hostage situations or get a clear view of a barricaded suspect.
—Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2024
According to police, demonstrators set up an encampment at a garden on the Art Institute property Saturday morning and barricaded and locked the gates.
—CBS News, 4 May 2024
Trump has suggested that officials might not prosecute the kinds of demonstrators who took over, barricaded, and vandalized a building at Columbia.
—David Jackson, USA TODAY, 4 May 2024
The noise — unsettling and dissonant — has been a constant inside the barricaded pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA.
—Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
On Tuesday, with Hamilton Hall’s doors barricaded, students used a milk crate on a pulley to lift supplies into the building through an upper-floor window.
—Isa Farfan, NBC News, 30 Apr. 2024
In its statement Wednesday, the school said that the barricaded doors have created a fire hazard, and many toilets in the building are reportedly no longer working, according to the statement.
—Jenavieve Hatch, Sacramento Bee, 24 Apr. 2024
Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 30 May 2024
Though hundreds of officers descended on the elementary school on May 24, 2022, none confronted the shooter for 77 minutes, wrongly treating the situation as one with a barricaded suspect instead of an active threat even as children and teachers pleaded with 911 dispatchers for help.
—Lomi Kriel, ProPublica, 23 May 2024
Police say drones are useful to monitor hostage situations or get a clear view of a barricaded suspect.
—Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2024
According to police, demonstrators set up an encampment at a garden on the Art Institute property Saturday morning and barricaded and locked the gates.
—CBS News, 4 May 2024
Trump has suggested that officials might not prosecute the kinds of demonstrators who took over, barricaded, and vandalized a building at Columbia.
—David Jackson, USA TODAY, 4 May 2024
The noise — unsettling and dissonant — has been a constant inside the barricaded pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA.
—Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
On Tuesday, with Hamilton Hall’s doors barricaded, students used a milk crate on a pulley to lift supplies into the building through an upper-floor window.
—Isa Farfan, NBC News, 30 Apr. 2024
In its statement Wednesday, the school said that the barricaded doors have created a fire hazard, and many toilets in the building are reportedly no longer working, according to the statement.
—Jenavieve Hatch, Sacramento Bee, 24 Apr. 2024
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“Barricaded.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/barricaded. Accessed 8 Jun. 2024.
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