Sentence examples for 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.

Only by escaping the "stockade" of the Single Market, he argued, will Britain truly be free to flourish in the global economy.

Using a small bicycle cart, now tucked securely between the hut and its flimsy stockade of thorn-branches, he fetches the carcasses, skins them and leaves what remains for the dogs.

The Creggan was famous for decades as the largest housing estate in the republican heartland of "Free Derry", one-time stockade of the IRA and Irish National Liberation Army INLAA).

But while the ability to dispense feelgood vibrations from within a doubly reinforced stockade of blindness and domestic felicity has been a feature of their ever-widening allure, it is the spindly irresistibility of their music that is the most important thing about them.

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

"Until the radical spirit revives to free us, we remain imprisoned in the vast gray stockades of the sexual reaction".

At first sight, it looks like an early pilot for one of those programmes where hoarders are talked out from behind their stockades of junk.

And if the comeback alone doesn't ramp up expectations, consider that his 2008 Lights In The Sky tour was a technological marvel featuring an LED curtain across the front of the stage that framed the band in ruined cityscapes or shifting stockades of static, like Pink Floyd's wall plugged into The Matrix.

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