How to Use barricaded in a Sentence

barricaded

adjective

• Students, on the cusp between adolescence and adulthood, huddled together behind barricaded doors.
  — Darcie Moran, Detroit Free Press, 13 Feb. 2024
• Not everyone loves the crowds, barricaded streets — and noise — that comes with the races.
  — Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 1 June 2023
• Near the causeway across the reservoir was a barricaded turnoff.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
• An honor guard marched across a barricaded street and raised the Chinese flag.
  — Washington Post, 5 June 2019
• The barricaded section of dirt track was on Williams’ property, but Sproul used it to reach the far outposts of his own land.
  — oregonlive, 15 Feb. 2023
• Some lie in a sewage canal; others are on the ground or the retaining walls just outside of the airport’s barricaded perimeter.
  — Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2021
• The woman who was killed was part of a crowd that was breaking down the doors to a barricaded room where armed officers stood on the other side, police said.
  — Lisa Mascaro, Star Tribune, 7 Jan. 2021
• As Dewar and the others hunkered down behind a barricaded door, Cox — still outside the room — was killed by the gunman.
  — Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 31 May 2023
• An honor guard marched across a barricaded road and raised the Chinese flag as the national anthem played.
  — Ken Moritsugu, USA TODAY, 4 June 2019
• The second most common is a barricaded suspect, whether holding a hostage or not, Kyle said.
  — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 24 Feb. 2024
• Babbitt was climbing through the broken window of a barricaded door to the Speaker’s Lobby when she was shot.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2024
• In Troy, police were involved in a standoff with a 30-year-old barricaded gunman at a home on Brooklawn Drive.
  — Brandon Patterson, Detroit Free Press, 20 Feb. 2018
• Hundreds of voters waited up to six hours in a line that wrapped around the embassy for a whole block and zigzagged along barricaded corridors set up by police.
  — Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2024
• The suspect remains barricaded inside the home and has continued to fire from the location, Smith said.
  — Eric Levenson, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024
• Back in the barricaded room with McConnell aides, one staffer began snapping photos through a window.
  — Karoun Demirjian, Star Tribune, 10 Jan. 2021
• Police had used a number of methods to try to contact the barricaded man, including phone calls and a loudspeaker, Murtha said.
  — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2023
• For now, local roads across the Dutch-Belgian border a short drive from Baarle remain barricaded with concrete blocks.
  — Mick Krever, CNN, 15 May 2020
• The altercation was an early moment in the siege where Trump supporters were able to make it past one barricaded section of the grounds, according to court records.
  — Hannah Rabinowitz and Katelyn Polantz, CNN, 4 June 2021
• Dozens were arrested the next day when police with riot helmets cleared the damaged and barricaded building.
  — Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 20 June 2024
• Traditionally, a barricaded suspect buys the police time to set up a perimeter and call a SWAT team, which could take 20 minutes to arrive.
  — Jacques Billeaud and Terry Tang, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Feb. 2022
• And, armed and likely unstable, he was found dead after exchanging fire with police who burst through a barricaded door to confront him.
  — Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 23 Mar. 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
• Ty spoke to ProPublica from his barricaded bedroom with his TikTok livestream on but his mic muted.
  — Hannah Dreyfus, ProPublica, 26 Feb. 2023
• Exchange students preparing to leave the city drag suitcases down the barricaded access road.
  — Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2019
• Coral Springs police said on its Twitter account Wednesday that the school was locked down and that students and teachers inside should remain barricaded until police reach them.
  — Angela Helm, The Root, 14 Feb. 2018
• Coral Springs Police said on their Twitter account Wednesday that the school is locked down and that students and teachers inside should remain barricaded until police reach them.
  — Detroit Free Press, 14 Feb. 2018
• Mong said that when employees showed up to the Canton and Forest Hill locations Monday, they were met with barricaded doors and no explanation as to what happened.
  — Phil Davis, baltimoresun.com, 25 Sep. 2019
• 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
• 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
• Police in Northern Virginia on Wednesday surround a vehicle in which a woman remained barricaded for more than a day.
  — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 30 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024