Sentence examples for put a stockade from inspiring English sources

Carla Baranauckas Last week, I asked my second-grade class why they thought the Pilgrims put a stockade fence around their new settlement.

At the Ojai Pirate Faire in California last month, a crew of pirate history zealots disarmed an unwitting Jack Sparrow, put him in a stockade and demanded a ransom of two harlots (a blonde and a redhead), Ms. Lampe said.

We were taken to a northern town, Daien, and put in a big stockade.

To block construction, the villagers here -- on the Kra isthmus linking Thailand with Malaysia, about 450 south of Bangkok -- have put up a makeshift stockade where they convene for lectures on energy, pollution and globalization.

Over the following two weeks, the three other people I had made appointments with came to see the garden, all with basically the same plan: replace the faux brick with bluestone, put in a new stockade fence and replace the plants.

They have reached the Owl Creek bridge, put it in order and built a stockade on the north bank.

Christopher Oram's set consists of paint-dappled wooden boards that turn the Donmar into a stockade.

Why would anyone build a moat and a stockade wall in the middle of the wilderness?

He lived with his family in a stockade inside the yard.

A slight rise on the southern perimeter suggests where a stockade wall ran.

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