Sentence examples for a stockade of from inspiring English sources

The entire house and outbuildings were surrounded by a stockade of cedar logs.

Unlike Warhol, whom he befriended early on, Hockney openly explored the nature of gay love in his work and declined to hide behind a stockade of soup cans.

The other bank of the stream was open ground a gentle acclivity topped with a stockade of vertical tree trunks, loopholed for rifles, with a single embrasure through which protruded the muzzle of a brass cannon commanding the bridge.

There's a bondage table, a metal cage, whips, paddles, a stockade of sorts, and various other instruments of the trade.

A stockade of customized weapons were sorted on the floor, including a "Cobra Shield" and a blade welded into a demonic vertebrae handle.

In "A Bend in the River," Salim recalls a stockade on the beach of his East African hometown: The walls were of brick.

In one he builds a stockade out of cards, in the rest he sticks to houses.

All-male, deep in rural southwest Georgia, surrounded by double fences topped with razor wire, it feels more like a stockade for prisoners of war than like a civil detention center.

The result allows the painted planks that make up Christopher Oram's set to literally engulf the audience in so much visibly stained white, evocative of both a stockade and of a world where goodness, such as it is, exists to be sullied.

Maxwell ordered the construction of a stockade and the improvisation of additional weapons to counter the threat of an attack.

"He spent a lot of time in a stockade," Hugh McNiece said of his father, "and he was O.K. with that".