How to Use gatehouse in a Sentence

gatehouse

noun

• At the hall, Roland stopped, propped his bike by the ancient gatehouse, crossed the road, and walked up and down.
  — Ian McEwan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
• Stop at the gatehouse to pick up your map that shows all the locations.
  — cleveland, 16 May 2022
• There’s a guard at a gatehouse, the sole access point, at the terminus of a dead-end road.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 27 Dec. 2018
• Our first destination in the city is a gatehouse at the entrance to the city’s Old Town.
  — Dina Mishev, Washington Post, 4 July 2019
• The wooden gatehouse and cellblocks of the Old Lahaina Prison, built in the 1850s to deal with rowdy sailors on shore leave, are gone.
  — Tim Arango, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
• Financial woes forced them to lease out the massive pile and repair to the gatehouse.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2018
• The stone gatehouse, staffed 24 hours a day, straddles a river and a lush 18-hole golf course dotted with ponds and fountains.
  — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2019
• At one of them the station’s commandant emerged from his gatehouse to check out our bikes and took a liking to my fly rod.
  — Nate Matthews, Field & Stream, 7 Dec. 2020
• Two guesthouses, a pair of gatehouses and a tennis court also are on the grounds.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2019
• But even castles fall, and the one where Daisy lived in Chevy Chase, Md., is gone, though its impressive gatehouse remains.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2018
• The neighborhood is equipped with a two-story gatehouse, which means anyone who enters has to show ID.
  — Araceli Cruz, Teen Vogue, 29 Oct. 2018
• Like an eternal flame burning bright at our gatehouse, Don was always there and always would be.
  — Steve West, sun-sentinel.com, 6 Aug. 2021
• Inquire at the gatehouse after 5 p.m. for a beach campfire permit.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
• Because the stout, cylindrical tower sits beside the South Street Bridge, the form suggests a medieval gatehouse, guarding the entrance to the city.
  — Inga Saffron, Philly.com, 28 Sep. 2017
• Trucks and cars have started to roll through the northwest gate, and the media and appointments gatehouse is in operation.
  — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 10 Mar. 2020
• At the gatehouse, there was usually a lone soldier on duty who would give my pass a cursory glance.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 6 Apr. 2022
• Old Lahaina prison—where people who were convicted of crimes were sent at the peak of the whaling era in the mid-1800s—lost its wooden gatehouse and wooden jail cell buildings.
  — Time, 15 Aug. 2023
• The upper gatehouse is a concrete and granite tower with its base 115 feet below water.
  — John Torsiello, courant.com, 4 Aug. 2019
• The memorial tower was dedicated in 1938 and the gatehouse built to service it.
  — Julie Besonen, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2017
• The gatehouse built by Capone has also been converted into a two-bedroom, one-bath guesthouse.
  — Danielle Fox, ELLE Decor, 19 Apr. 2018
• Its gatehouse is crumbling, much of its fence is broken and many headstones have been toppled or vandalized.
  — Noah Remnick, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2017
• About ten of us gathered at the main gate to the cemetery, on E Street S.E., and proceeded past a gatehouse, a wooden box full of brochures, and a dispenser of hand sanitizer, all squeezed out.
  — Mary Norris, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2020
• The finds at the site, called Ophel, included a roughly 210-foot-long wall section, complete with a gatehouse, corner tower and a royal structure.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2020
• Then thought to be part of a castle gatehouse, the ruins were later identified as part of a surprisingly large building.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Feb. 2020
• Celebrities and the ultrawealthy are drawn to its secluded location; it is connected to South Beach via a causeway and has a manned gatehouse at the entrance.
  — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2022
• But in 1961 the Buchanans moved into the gatehouse and, with hands-on supervision and trips to Europe for fireplaces and fixtures, restored the mansion to pristine condition.
  — Robert D. McFadden, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2020
• The connection between the Barnes and Mural Arts began in summer 2017, when the museum reached out about repurposing the gatehouse.
  — Bethany Ao, Philly.com, 27 Feb. 2018
• Access to the community is restricted, and visitors and residents must check in at the staffed gatehouse, use a code, or be buzzed in by a homeowner, Rues said.
  — Eileen Kelley, sun-sentinel.com, 30 Nov. 2021
• The community was set off from the surrounding suburbs by a canal, a gatehouse, a 10-foot wall and an infrared security system.
  — Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2022
• More Private Properties The grounds include specimen gardens and woodlands, a heated pool, a large carriage house, a three-bedroom gatehouse and a six-stall horse barn.
  — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018

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