Sentence examples for large barricade from inspiring English sources

They went past a Dumpster center and a large barricade of metal mailboxes while Arty searched squint-eyed for the right apartment.

With the police temporarily away from Istiklal, the remaining protesters chose to construct a large barricade, raiding a construction site nearby for plywood, metal bars, and the all-important blue netting.

The officers responded by charging the crowd swinging truncheons and firing several plastic bullets, while British Army soldiers installed a much larger barricade that was lined with barbed wire and supported by enormous blocks of concrete.

The uninviting light, coupled with the large makeshift barricade of potted plants and sliding panels at the glass front doors, was meant to deter looters — the stagecraft equivalent of a "Nobody home!" But the women did not seem deterred.

The soldiers retreated behind large concrete barricades for safety, according to accounts by Israeli military officers at the scene.

It was a tradition by then, three and a half years after the invasion of neighboring Iraq, for every Army, Marine, and even Air Force battalion at that camp to proudly paint its unit emblem on one of those large, ubiquitous barricades.

After dark, the square in the Ukrainian capital's heart – despite its improvised militia checkpoints, unlit large tents and barricades of stacked car tires – did not feel like a safe place to be in.

Outside the Emergency Operations Center, demonstrators -- mostly Republican -- gathered in a large circle behind police barricades to await the announcement of the recount totals.

In Mitzpeh Yitzhar, the young, bearded settlers used large rocks to construct barricades, lighted hillside brush fires and threw themselves in front of army vehicles in an attempt to prevent soldiers and police officers from taking down several tents and huts.

Quiet beginnings: The streets of Mong Kok are quiet, with large stretches of Nathan Road barricaded off but lightly populated.

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