Sentence examples for barricade about from inspiring English sources

In Battery Park City yesterday morning, Martin Harries, an English professor at New York University, walked several blocks in the wrong direction along South End Avenue looking for signs saying, "Vote Here," only to reach a dead end at a barricade about a block south of the World Financial Center.

Understandably then, it has something of the barricade about it.

The police set up two rows of steel barricades about 150 yards from the wall.

According to deaths reported by CEPR in the last month, in addition to those killed for trying to remove protesters' barricades, about seven have apparently been killed by protesters' obstructions – including a motorcyclist beheaded by a wire stretched across the road – and five National Guard officers have been killed.

Curiously, while it's not overblown to describe this as a crisis, people are not taking to the barricades about it and politicians can appear surprisingly relaxed.

Some other songs pay amiable lip service to hardship, as metaphors for relationship turmoil: "Barricade" is about the walls we build, and "Pins & Needles" is about being strung along.

Expecting little trouble, British soldiers initially erected a flexible barricade only about eight feet high.

When the levee finally gave way Friday and water surged toward this town, they refused to surrender the fight, feverishly building a new sand-filled barricade around about 100 homes in east Winfield.

The residents of Villa Lugano, a scruffy neighborhood on the city's south side, burn tires and beat drums, while a dozen police officers in fluorescent orange jerseys stand behind a metal barricade, protecting about 90 squatters from the neighbors' wrath.

If you don't have time to barricade yourself, then worry about hiding.

The man, Stephen Pawlicki, barricaded himself about 8 30 a.m. during a domestic dispute, the police said.