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guardhouse

[ UK /ɡˈɑːdha‍ʊs/ ]
NOUN
  1. a military facility that serves as the headquarters for military police and in which military prisoners can be detained

How To Use guardhouse In A Sentence

  • On 7 September, resisting confinement in the post guardhouse, he received a fatal wound from a soldier's bayonet.
  • He conducted the matter in his pyjamas, and wanted to shove Hauptmann Horn in the guardhouse for the night.
  • I contemplated of forging a letter from the management to complain about the noise pollution he’s causing (it’s been two weeks) but resorted to calling the guardhouse and asked the guards to tell him instead. Natinski Diary Entry
  • Still, there were over a dozen of them barracked in the new guardhouse at the gate to the estate.
  • Patriotism, hounded on by Prussian Terror, by Preternatural Suspicion, roars tumultuous round the Salle de Manege, all day; insults many leading Deputies, of the absolvent Right-side; nay chases them, collars them with loud menace: Deputy Vaublanc, and others of the like, are glad to take refuge in Guardhouses, and escape by the back window. The French Revolution
  • The cages and guardhouse all suggested close surveillance of the bunker and its contents.
  • Tad Sobber was impudent, and as a consequence was marched off to a storeroom which was occasionally used as a "guardhouse" by the teachers and Captain Putnam. The Rover Boys on the Farm or Last Days at Putnam Hall
  • Unexpectedly faced with detention in the post guardhouse, he made a desperate break for freedom and received a mortal bayonet wound.
  • A few days later Papa, my sisters, Alexei, and I went down to the guardhouse, as some of our friends were on duty.
  • They also were puzzled by the presence in the enclosed courtyard of a new glass-walled room that seemed to be a guardhouse.
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