How To Use stanchion In A Sentence
- They acted as an anchorage for the stanchions which, standing on the seabed, supported the harbours.
- For the first time in 80 years, three of the four processions for the end of Holy Week, Semana Santa, were cancelled, thanks to mad billows blowing over every banner and stanchion and cordon, rain guttering from every rooftop, children's fingers growing waxy. Wind and heavy rain greet Britons who headed for Spanish sun at Easter
- They mustered eighteen in all, and in half an hour they were ironed in a row along the stanchioned rail of the torpedo-boat. The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility
- With a light snow falling, he had driven on perhaps a hundred yards before his car hit a stanchion at slow speed and came to rest.
- Four people died in the GNER buffet car when it cannoned into an overhead line stanchion.
- Yet the building seemed ancient and strong, a part of the roof was battlemented, and the walls were of great thickness; lastly, I observed, with some unpleasant sensations, that the windows of my chamber had been lately secured with iron stanchions, and that the servants who brought me victuals, or visited my apartment to render other menial offices, always locked the door when they retired. Redgauntlet
- She has done considerable damage to herself, my after bitts are sheered off level with the deck, my stern chocks are pulled out and about 10 feet of the rail, including two stanchions.
- Both the stanchion futtock and the top timber will be replaced.
- On the left, a stanchioned flat-screen monitor shows the drummer pounding away in the grave. Familiarity Does Little to Excite
- The bus was knocked onto its side after hitting a guard rail and a steel stanchion. Bus firm was cited for fatigued driving
