guardhouse

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Recent Examples of guardhouse Zoom in: The new businesses are planned to open in the hilltop Spanish colonial revival-style homes of naval officers and the former guardhouse. Kate Murphy, Axios, 18 Sep. 2024 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 See All Example Sentences for guardhouse
Recent Examples of Synonyms for guardhouse
Noun
  • John Pope was hired as a deputy commissioner in the Water Department under Mayor Rahm Emanuel following his 2015 loss to Susan Sadlowski Garza in the Southeast Side ward; and former 41st Ward Ald.
    A.D. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Simeon Sokolov, 50, found his daughter Anastasija at the emergency ward of the September 8 hospital in the capital Skopje, where she was being treated for burns and smoke inhalation.
    Fatos Bytyci and Aleksandar Vasovic, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The new glasshouse floats ethereally above a quiet reflecting pool.
    airmail.news, airmail.news, 16 Nov. 2024
  • 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
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
  • That is a memoir by Kang Chol-hwan about the North Korean gulag.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Now as then, letters from the gulags tell of eternal winters, cold cells, and the longing for the first signs of greenery to appear amid the thaw.
    Francesca Mastruzzo (Tr. Elettra Pauletto), The Dial, 14 Jan. 2024
Noun
  • The program incorporates futsal, cage football and mandatory dance classes.
    Robert Kidd, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • The men in the cage match were attacking each other with a screwdriver.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 23 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The solid stuff gets filtered into a separate compartment and the dirty mop water goes into the dirty water tank.
    Emily Farris, Bon Appétit, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Visitors will see a freshwater swamp area, Stingray Bay, Key West Harbor as well as tanks for big-belly seahorses.
    Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The View From The Ground: A Federal Prison Crisis Federal prison camps are often portrayed as the safest and easiest to manage within theFederal Bureau of Prisons.
    Walter Pavlo, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Other Facilities Alongside the closure of FCI Dublin, the Bureau of Prisons is shutting down minimum-security prison camps in Pensacola, Florida; Duluth, Minnesota; and Morgantown, West Virginia.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Hawke plays Samuel Murphy who, after the death of his wife, is imprisoned in a labor camp run by Clancy, an unscrupulous overseer (Crowe).
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Feb. 2025
  • His Polish father had fought for the Allied Armed Forces, while his Belarusian mother had survived a Nazi labor camp.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025

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