Example Sentences

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It needs foreign aid to replenish its stockades and help even the odds.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 23, 2024

Overcrowding inside these stockades saw the spread of tuberculosis and blastomycosis, caused by a soil-borne fungus, along with iron-deficiency anemia.

From Salon • Aug. 16, 2022

This applies universally but, with faith — I assume thanks to millennia of stakes, stockades and harangues — the tiptoeing impulse is strong.

From Washington Post • Jun. 17, 2022

The term has also been synonymous with prisoner of war camps and stockades.

From Fox News • Oct. 28, 2021

They built neither stockades nor trenches around their camps.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli