blockhouse

How To Use blockhouse In A Sentence

• the only surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania
• In the past, blockhouses were used as defence forts and beacon towers.
• More than half a million of them toiled for four months building the line; 1,250 trains hauled materials to construct the steel-reinforced concrete forts and blockhouses.
• Similarly, in eastern Europe and the Baltic, crusaders constructed a range of fortresses from wooden blockhouses to the great monastery castles of the military orders.
• They advanced yard by yard, imposing a strict blockade with barbed wire and blockhouses.
• In less than a minute, 50 hulking men have poured out from a blockhouse wearing camouflage, black berets and webbing, and clutching assault rifles.
• Set in the wall opposite the blockhouse was a tall, arch-shaped doorway and a pair of solid wooden doors. Typhoon Season
• The throne room of the blockhouse was a rough, frontier affair, a rude dais made of slabs of stone with a captain's chair from one of the ships serving as a throne. The Brothers' War
• This may suggest that in the Blockhouse Shale C. friendsvillensis was part of a deeper water biocoenosis than in the other known occurrences.
• When Fernao went out to the blockhouse with Pekka and Ilmarinen and the three newly arrived theoretical sorcerers, he didn't think he was the overimaginative one. Rulers of the Darkness