stanchion
noun
an upright bar, beam, post, or support, as in a window, stall, ship, etc.
stanchions
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present tense formof stanchion (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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That means the end of those stainless-steel stanchions with numbers etched into them at the gate, where passengers today line up based on boarding position assigned at check-in and then pick any open seat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
And you're funneled through a labyrinth of retractable stanchions like you’re about to meet a costumed mouse at Magic Kingdom, not a budtender named Jade.
From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2025
We’ve got rock formation under the channel near the stanchions to prevent a ship from getting anywhere close to it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2024
By Sunday afternoon, plastic stanchions and red caution tape cordoned off the corner of the building, where some glass and rubble from the smashed facade still lay.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 5, 2023
He observed that my gaze was fixed absently upon the stanchions, and after a time grew tired of waiting, and asked me what I thought of.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
