Sentence examples for stanchion- from inspiring English sources

Libya's version of the Mary Celeste sits bobbing up and down tied to a stanchion in Tripoli harbour.

A hundred years later, both Paris and London ruled that signs save for those designating inns for the convenience of the traveler might no longer sway boldly from a stanchion outside the premises but must be mounted flat on the face of the building, safely out of the public way.

There are two major cattle-housing methods, the stall barn (or stanchion barn) and the loose-housing system.

Behind a protective stanchion, and sadly not the only work protected this way, they seem to be contained in some strange zoo-like cages.

Not since Eric Cantona leapt on to the stanchion after equalising against Liverpool at Old Trafford has there been a comeback quite so anticipated as that of Luis Alberto Suarez Diaz.

I'd been there many times before and thus was familiar with the droll monstrosity on a giant poster that an engineer outfit had stuck up on a stanchion — a creation executed by some marine who had been a cartoonist in civilian life.

Similarly, the aforementioned lakeside scene features the stanchion in the foreground and a ship in the distance, both in sharp focus.

Grabbing hold of a protruding stanchion, he began scurrying up the face, like a cockroach eluding the sole of a loafer.

He tried again and just caught a glimpse of the Slavs by the first stanchion leaning out and shouting, as they watched the capsized kayak float out into the current downstream of the bridge.

They rut against the leaning stanchion of a bridge, with the word "FUCK" helpfully scrawled on the concrete beside them, just in case we thought they were trading stock tips.

(The Bruins blamed the stanchion that Chara drove him into; true orc talk).