construct barricade

Frequency: 4.50.5 per million words

to build a physical barrier or obstruction

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Examples (10)

  • The protesters began to construct a barricade using overturned cars and trash cans.
  • Police were ordered to construct a barricade to prevent the crowd from advancing.
  • During the siege, the soldiers worked tirelessly to construct a barricade at the city's entrance.
  • Emergency crews had to construct a temporary barricade around the collapsed building.
  • In the 19th-century novel, revolutionaries constructed a barricade in the narrow Parisian streets.
  • If the flooding worsens, we will construct a barricade with sandbags.
  • The residents have constructed a barricade to protect their homes from the wildfire.
  • Constructing a barricade was their last desperate attempt to hold back the enemy.
  • The commander's first order was to construct a barricade across the main road.
  • It takes significant resources to construct a barricade capable of stopping vehicles.