guardhouse

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Recent Examples of guardhouse The movie studio backers built a forlorn guardhouse on 40 acres in South Windsor, but nothing else. Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 6 Apr. 2024 Officials also plan to extend the airport’s buffer zone, currently being guarded by members of the Armed Forces in the makeshift guardhouses made from shipping containers. Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 17 May 2024 Next door, Oates uncovered a large edifice with a massive basalt threshold and thick walls, entered by passing through two small rooms, perhaps guardhouses. Andrew Lawler, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2010 Altogether, the compound features a total of 12 bedrooms and a whopping 24 bathrooms split between a main house, a 5,000-square-foot guest penthouse, a caretaker’s cottage, and a guardhouse. Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 1 June 2023 See all Example Sentences for guardhouse 
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Noun
  • After serving as vice president at the educational nonprofit the Skillman Foundation, she was elected to represent Bay City’s second ward in the City Commission.
    The Hill, The Hill, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The court's decision ultimately shifted the burden of proof from the ward to the guardian.
    Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 9 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Driving the news: The project adds glasshouses, office space and plants while relocating and enhancing existing structures, including its 1906 restaurant.
    Mike D'Onofrio, Axios, 23 Oct. 2024
  • There’s a digital painting of an eerie glasshouse overgrown with red roses by Zhang Xiaotong; Too Rich City, a digital video depicting a surreal Chinese cityscape; and a humorous digital comic by Tang Xinrui where a human are the ones ogled by fish at an aquarium.
    Ann Binlot, ARTnews.com, 29 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • There are worse places to begin a search for the sources of Egypt's current political earthquake than in the company of a middle-aged French soldier imprisoned in a German stalag during World War II.
    Robert Zaretsky, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2011
  • Request Reprint Permissions There are worse places to begin a search for the sources of Egypt's current political earthquake than in the company of a middle-aged French soldier imprisoned in a German stalag during World War II.
    Robert Zaretsky, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2011
Noun
  • Now that stores only sell clothes that have been slapped together from plastic sheeting and surgical staples in fast-fashion gulags, what used to be considered basic construction — stuff like finished seams and sturdy material — becomes downright luxurious in comparison.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 16 July 2024
  • Nikita Khrushchev’s Soviet Union was a murderous gulag.
    Bryan C. Donohue, Baltimore Sun, 17 Apr. 2024
Noun
  • Police say that while the young child was locked in the dog cage, constrained by zip ties, the woman kicked her and duct taped her mouth shut, according to court documents viewed by PEOPLE.
    Luke Chinman, People.com, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The officer reportedly saw items inside the vehicle that didn’t belong to him before noticing a body stuck between the SUV’s backseat cage area and cargo hold.
    Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 23 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Allied groups, such as Way to Win, a left-leaning strategy tank and donor hub, have begun releasing preliminary exit polling and have promised an examination in the next few weeks.
    Phillip M. Bailey, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Advertisement Around the base the sounds of rumbling tanks and live explosives along with the sparse desert environment can paint a rough picture.
    Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Watch: The truth about Stalin’s prison camps The most influential of Stalin memorials is being raised in the minds of the young.
    Leon Aron, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2024
  • An investigation conducted by a United Nations tribunal into the crimes committed at the prison camp led to the conviction of two top commanders at the camp and a guard for numerous crimes, including murder and torture.
    Greg Wehner, Fox News, 22 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Those accused of disloyalty or dissent face brutal punishments, including imprisonment in labor camps, torture, or execution.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Before my parents were liberated they were imprisoned in labor camps.
    Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 1 July 2024

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