stockade in a sentence
n.
📚 Grade Level: Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
Definition
A stockade is a fortified enclosure or barrier made of upright wooden posts or stakes, used for protection or confinement.
Sample Sentences
- The prisoners were confined within the stockade, unable to escape their fate.
- During the frontier days, settlers often built a stockade for protection against hostile attacks.
- The old stockade stood silent, a testament to the battles fought in its shadow.
- As night fell, the guards patrolled the perimeter of the stockade, ensuring no one could slip away.
- Children played near the historic stockade, unaware of its grim past.
- The prisoners were held in a stockade while awaiting trial.
- During the reenactment, the actors built a stockade to illustrate colonial life.
- The stockade provided a secure refuge for the settlers against potential attacks.
- Rioters took cover behind the makeshift stockade they had hastily constructed.
- As night fell, the soldiers fortified their position within the wooden stockade.