How to Use palisade in a Sentence
palisade
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Pauger's plans called for the city to be fortified with palisades on all sides.
—Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 14 Dec. 2017
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The presence of the palisade, which brings up the ghosts of violent conflict, adds to the story of this hard life.
—Susan Dunne, courant.com, 16 Nov. 2020
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Perched on a rocky palisade high above the Danube, the castle is the area’s major tourist attraction.
—John Gurda, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Nov. 2019
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The 25-foot palisade of water pummeled her boat, spinning it it upside down.
—Gregory Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 15 Aug. 2020
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The wood used to build its palisade had reportedly left telltale stains.
—Julia Musto, Fox News, 24 Mar. 2021
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The compound was hidden behind a tall palisade of cactus and purple bougainvillea.
—Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018
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Researchers also identified the remains of a square or quadrangular structure at the site, believed to be part of a palisade designed to force the tribes through two of the fords over the Tagus.
—Fox News, 23 Apr. 2020
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Over the course of the road trip Wu documented a variety of Bolivian landscapes ranging from sandy deserts to rocky palisades, but the Salar de Uyuni emerged as the highlight.
—Wired, 16 Nov. 2019
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The first castles were merely earthen heaps surrounded by a wooden palisade wall.
—William Gurstelle, Popular Mechanics, 10 Aug. 2017
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The first castles were merely earthen heaps surrounded by a wooden palisade wall.
—William Gurstelle, Popular Mechanics, 11 Apr. 2019
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It was surrounded by a palisade of wooden posts that eventually decayed, leading the mound to collapse.
—Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Aug. 2021
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So, Jones says at this point, he is forced to conclude that the palisades have completely deteriorated beyond recovery.
—Jennifer Coe, Courant Community, 18 May 2017
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El Economista reported that archeologists have also found a wooden rectangular platform at the center with the imprint of 16 poles that created a kind of palisade.
—J. Weston Phippen, The Atlantic, 3 July 2017
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In fact, hardly anything was built until the 1729 Natchez Indian uprising, after which authorities erected a palisade and dug a shallow moat.
—Richard Campanella, NOLA.com, 10 May 2017
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Somewhere, out there, beyond the immediate palisade, the fighting continues.
—Alan Cowell, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Mar. 2021
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This vertical, rippling, palisade texture forms when long filaments from microbial mats that exist at the outflows of hot springs get entombed in silica sediment that is common in the water.
—Fox News, 11 May 2017
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The palisade fabric is similarly unconvincing, Bosak says, because such rock crystal formations could form from non-biological causes, such as after an asteroid impact.
—Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 11 May 2017
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Pauger's plans called for the city to be fortified with palisades on all sides.
—Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 14 Dec. 2017
-
The presence of the palisade, which brings up the ghosts of violent conflict, adds to the story of this hard life.
—Susan Dunne, courant.com, 16 Nov. 2020
-
Perched on a rocky palisade high above the Danube, the castle is the area’s major tourist attraction.
—John Gurda, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Nov. 2019
-
The 25-foot palisade of water pummeled her boat, spinning it it upside down.
—Gregory Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 15 Aug. 2020
-
The wood used to build its palisade had reportedly left telltale stains.
—Julia Musto, Fox News, 24 Mar. 2021
-
The compound was hidden behind a tall palisade of cactus and purple bougainvillea.
—Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018
-
Researchers also identified the remains of a square or quadrangular structure at the site, believed to be part of a palisade designed to force the tribes through two of the fords over the Tagus.
—Fox News, 23 Apr. 2020
-
Over the course of the road trip Wu documented a variety of Bolivian landscapes ranging from sandy deserts to rocky palisades, but the Salar de Uyuni emerged as the highlight.
—Wired, 16 Nov. 2019
-
The first castles were merely earthen heaps surrounded by a wooden palisade wall.
—William Gurstelle, Popular Mechanics, 10 Aug. 2017
-
The first castles were merely earthen heaps surrounded by a wooden palisade wall.
—William Gurstelle, Popular Mechanics, 11 Apr. 2019
-
It was surrounded by a palisade of wooden posts that eventually decayed, leading the mound to collapse.
—Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Aug. 2021
-
So, Jones says at this point, he is forced to conclude that the palisades have completely deteriorated beyond recovery.
—Jennifer Coe, Courant Community, 18 May 2017
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El Economista reported that archeologists have also found a wooden rectangular platform at the center with the imprint of 16 poles that created a kind of palisade.
—J. Weston Phippen, The Atlantic, 3 July 2017
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