How to Use bollard in a Sentence

bollard

noun

• Trump has gone back and forth about whether the steel bollards on the border should be black.
  — Harold Maass, TheWeek, 7 May 2020
• The officer was crushed between a bollard in front of the building and the front end of the SUV.
  — Stephanie Toone, ajc, 9 June 2020
• Still, the steel bollards stacked near the cemetery were an ominous sign.
  — J. David Goodman, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• Where does that leave plans to add bollards along Bourbon?
  — Greg Larose, NOLA.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• The San Diego project will be similar to the one in Santa Teresa — bollards with a steel plate at the top.
  — Kate Morrissey, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 June 2018
• Two graphic grids have been erected on the two other sides of the site, and bollards will be set up all around.
  — Sylvie Corbet, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2018
• The bollard, a common structural type of fencing, is already in use around the world.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 3 Sep. 2020
• For instance, on the bike path near me (the one with the switchback path), there are bollards at every entrance.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 14 June 2024
• Included in the memo were photos of the bollards the vehicle struck.
  — Ken Dilanian, NBC News, 30 May 2023
• The remaining 11 are flush with the floor, like bollards, gravestones or flesh-and-blood people.
  — David Pagel, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2019
• Crews are installing 270 panels a day, each one with eight bollards.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2019
• The east end of the street is blocked by bollards screwed into receptacles.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 9 Aug. 2019
• Still, the ban was phased in Saturday as workers placed steel bollards, or movable posts, at the ends of each block.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2023
• The new wall, with its deep foundation and closely built bollards, could act as a dam and worsen floods.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• After cutting through the base of a single bollard, smugglers can push the steel out of the way, allowing an adult to fit through the gap.
  — Nick Miroff, Twin Cities, 2 Nov. 2019
• Trump's shift was primarily due to the preference of agents on the ground for the steel bollard design.
  — William Cummings, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2019
• In February, blasting began on the hill to make way for the bollard fencing.
  — Rafael Carranza, The Arizona Republic, 27 Aug. 2020
• Two are see-though, with bollard-type posts on the bottom section topped by a solid section.
  — Tribune News Service, NOLA.com, 27 Oct. 2017
• Two are see-though — with bollard-type posts on the bottom section topped by a solid portion.
  — Greg Moran, latimes.com, 28 Oct. 2017
• After cutting through the base of a single bollard, smugglers can push the steel out of the way, creating an adult-size gap.
  — Nick Miroff, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Nov. 2019
• Days after the second death, the city installed plastic bollards between bike and car traffic on the route.
  — Andrew Keatts, Axios, 27 July 2024
• Workers are replacing a two-mile stretch of wire-mesh fencing east of Lukeville with 30-foot bollards.
  — Rafael Carranza, azcentral, 10 Sep. 2019
• Right next to the part of the wall that had just been breached was a bollard with a label indicating that it had been repaired earlier in the day.
  — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 8 Dec. 2023
• Retractable bollards would have stopped last year’s rampage and still allowed traffic to flow freely for the remainder of the year.
  — William Wilkes, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2017
• Even a planned hedge will hide steel and cement bollards capable of stopping an eight-ton truck.
  — Charlie D'agata, CBS News, 13 Dec. 2017
• After all, what is a sturdy tree trunk but nature’s bollard?
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2021
• What set them off, apparently, was the collapse of a line of bollards whose clack-clack-clack against the floor sounded like gunshots.
  — Henry Grabar, Slate Magazine, 7 Sep. 2017
• There are no bollards to prevent access by a car at that location.
  — Sharon Otterman, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2017
• Those are being replaced by rubber curbs and new bollards.
  — Andrew Kenney, The Denver Post, 24 Sep. 2019
• There are now bollards in front of the shop to block any future ramming attempts and the store puts its guns away each night and is considering hiring a security guard, Geurts said.
  — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2024

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024