Example Sentences

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A barbed-wire security fence ringed the perimeter, and guardhouses were stationed at the entrances.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2022

During the years Dietz worked with De Becker, he visited the homes of De Becker’s clients, touring guardhouses and safe rooms De Becker’s team had installed.

From The Guardian • Feb. 12, 2019

By the 18th century, when more conservative Bourbons succeeded to the Spanish throne, these private rooms became guardhouses for masterpieces they would have been happy to burn.

From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2016

There were more guardhouses at regular intervals, and then, across the ridge, the remains of stone walls and defensive ditches.

From Slate • Jun. 21, 2016

We pulled out of the development and headed north, past the gates and guardhouses, past the high-tension wires and the osprey nests, toward the Lake Windsor campus.

From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor