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Stockade is an English word with synonyms like fortification or fence. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Stockade meaning

  1. An enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts.
  2. A military prison.

Synonyms of Stockade

fortification fence in fence palisade wall penal facility penal institution concentration camp munition surround

Related words

Other words often associated with Stockade or its synonyms:

fencing defence institution protect defense enclose art instrumentality environment encircle divider arms

Using Stockade

  • The main meaning on this page is: An enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts. | A military prison.
  • Useful related words include: fortification, fence in, fence, palisade.
  • In the example corpus, stockade often appears in combinations such as: the stockade, eureka stockade, stockade to.

Context around Stockade

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 23.7 words
  • Position in the sentence: 3 start, 8 middle, 9 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

eureka 5× privacy 1× wooden 1× temporary 1× tall 1× post 1× armed 1×

Often after:

itself 1× affair 1× neighborhood 1× fence 1× district 1× convention 1× overnight 1× fences 1× political 1× adjacent 1×

Sentence patterns with Stockade

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

a privacy stockade affair that 1× a temporary stockade 1× a wooden stockade fence at 1× around the stockade district 1× at the stockade convention centre 1× at the stockade overnight which 1× eureka stockade was a 1× from the stockade to intercept 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a small contingent 1× according to charles 1× according to lalor 1× after striking the 1× and that public 1× deputy premier the 1×

Common sentence endings:

a temporary stockade 1× a wooden structure 1× against indian attacks 1× and hyde park 1× and overturned carts 1× and self interest 1×

Words around Stockade

Just before it in the word index:

stock 23.545 stochastics 2 stochastically 4 stochastic 73 stoch 5 stocco 4

Just after it in the word index:

stockades 5 stockard 4 stockbarrons 2 stockbridge 33 stockbroker 48 stockbrokers 23

Similar in corpus frequency:

abdur 43 abrasion 43 abscess 43 absconded 43 acclimated 43 acf 43

Corpus analysis for Stockade

  • In this selection, "stockade" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 23.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, eureka, privacy, wooden, itself, affair and neighborhood stand out and add context to how "stockade" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a privacy stockade affair that and a temporary stockade. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "stockade" sits close to words such as abdur, abrasion and abscess, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with stockade

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Three of the state’s oldest buildings hover around the Stockade District. (12 words)

In 1927 Fuller, then aged 32, lost his job as president of Stockade. (13 words)

The event will be taking place on April 14 at the Stockade Convention Centre. (14 words)

Longer example sentences

Watercolour of the Eureka Stockade, J. B. Henderson, 1854 1891 depiction of the Eureka Stockade by Beryl Ireland There is no agreement as to which side fired first, but the battle was fierce, brief, and terribly one-sided. (38 words)

After striking the GMC, the 20-year old male driver of the Tahoe lost control of the truck, veered off the road and into a wooden stockade fence at the corner of North and Hyde Park. (36 words)

Hoffman ordered the Mojave men to assemble at the armed stockade adjacent to his headquarters; two days later, on April 23, 1859, clan chiefs came as ordered to hear Hoffman's terms of peace. (34 words)

Example sentences (20)

Stockade The stockade itself was a ramshackle affair citation which was hastily constructed over the following days from timber and overturned carts.

Watercolour of the Eureka Stockade, J. B. Henderson, 1854 1891 depiction of the Eureka Stockade by Beryl Ireland There is no agreement as to which side fired first, but the battle was fierce, brief, and terribly one-sided.

And then a tall fence went up — a privacy stockade affair that kept out peering eyes.

Schenectady teenager Samantha Humphrey left home at around 11 p.m. on Black Friday, 2022, and went to Riverside Park in the Stockade neighborhood of Schenectady.

After striking the GMC, the 20-year old male driver of the Tahoe lost control of the truck, veered off the road and into a wooden stockade fence at the corner of North and Hyde Park.

Three of the state’s oldest buildings hover around the Stockade District.

And that public square of social media—the stockade of being put in the square by somebody online.

Many of those on the Pilgrimage toured the stockade at the grounds in Tulelake on Saturday.

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The event will be taking place on April 14 at the Stockade Convention Centre.

According to Charles E. Slocum, the American military built Fort Industry at the mouth of the Maumee about 1805, but as a temporary stockade.

According to Lalor's report, fourteen miners (mostly Irish) died inside the stockade and an additional eight died later from injuries they sustained.

A small contingent of miners remained at the stockade overnight, which the spies reported to Rede.

Deputy Premier, the Hon. Peter Ryan, told the Legislative Assembly, sitting in Ballarat in 2012, that M.A.D.E. would be "a magnificent tribute to the events" of the Eureka Stockade.

Eureka Stockade was a two-part television mini-series which aired on the Seven Network in 1984. citation starring Bryan Brown as Peter Lalor.

Guild and Carter 9 Missouri was then the frontier of American expansionism west; cabins were "forted" with tall stockade fences to defend against Indian attacks.

Historians, including Weston Bate suggested that there was some hypocrisy in Lalor's folk hero status due to his post-stockade political opportunism and self-interest.

Hoffman ordered the Mojave men to assemble at the armed stockade adjacent to his headquarters; two days later, on April 23, 1859, clan chiefs came as ordered to hear Hoffman's terms of peace.

In 1889, Melbourne businessmen employed renowned American cyclorama artist Thaddeus Welch, who teamed up with local artist Izett Watson to paint convert of canvas of the Eureka Stockade, wrapped around a wooden structure.

In 1927 Fuller, then aged 32, lost his job as president of Stockade.

In a fateful decision, McGill decided to take most of the Californian Rangers away from the stockade to intercept rumoured British reinforcements coming from Melbourne.

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Common combinations with stockade

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "stockade" in a sentence?
An example: "Stockade The stockade itself was a ramshackle affair citation which was hastily constructed over the following days from timber and overturned carts." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "stockade" from authentic English texts.
What does "stockade" mean?
Stockade means: An enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts.
What are synonyms of "stockade"?
Common synonyms of "stockade" include: fortification, fence in, fence, palisade, wall, penal facility, penal institution, concentration camp. Plus 2 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "stockade" are there?
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