How to Use barrack in a Sentence

barrack

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  • The school's barracks, built in 1983, are dated and cramped.
    — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 25 Feb. 2020
  • The next morning, Rosario went to a work party and left her in the barracks.
    — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Dwelling houses on one side of the street and barracks on the other.
    — Anna Purna Kambhampaty, Time, 3 Apr. 2020
  • Robinson smoked his first hookah on the floor of Allawi’s barracks.
    — Benoît Morenne, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2023
  • When Mila came down with typhus, she was moved to a barrack for the sick to die.
    — Diane Herbst, PEOPLE.com, 7 Mar. 2022
  • The group was picked up in golf carts and bunked in old military barracks.
    — Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 5 Feb. 2024
  • It was used to shuttle men from their barracks to the frontline through thick mud.
    — WIRED, 6 July 2023
  • This gentleman sent my dad a picture of the barracks, which was kind of cool.
    — Doug Farrar, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2020
  • In my barrack, there were around one hundred and fifty men, or perhaps a few more.
    — Fox News, 1 Apr. 2020
  • When the girl was found in the barracks, she was found under the covers of the bed, snoring with the television on, the defense said.
    — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Kyaw Naing says he’s stopped going out at night for fear he’ll be arrested and sent to the barracks.
    — Helen Regan, CNN, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The next day, military police at Camp Pendleton found the girl in a barracks.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Aug. 2023
  • As news of the capture spread across the county, Cavalcante was driven to the police barracks.
    — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
  • During the war, American soldiers lived in barracks near the mine.
    — Katie Lockhart, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2019
  • The barrack was divided in half by a wall, an employee said.
    — jsonline.com, 20 May 2021
  • The history of the prison camp and the barracks are personal for Rodriguez, who is a Dallas native.
    — Jordyn Harrell, Dallas News, 28 Apr. 2023
  • But despite the trappings of home, the house now has a new function — as a makeshift Israeli military barracks.
    — Patrick Kingsley Avishag Shaar-Yashuv, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Military police at Camp Pendleton found the girl in a barracks June 28.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Weaver served at all State Police barrack during his time in the uniform bureau.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Apr. 2022
  • The Americans returned to their barracks, the two hundred Jews still safely among them.
    — Richard Hurowitz, Time, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Harvey then sold it to Mecom, who used the old barracks and officer's quarters for his drilling business.
    — Dana Burke, Houston Chronicle, 27 Mar. 2020
  • Rationing was still in force, the athletes were put up in military barracks, schools and hostels.
    — Madeline Roache, Time, 23 Mar. 2020
  • As the rockets rained down, the National Guard troops vacated their barracks in the public school.
    — James Verini Paolo Pellegrin, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2023
  • In the northern region of Tumbes, the old walls of an Army barracks collapsed, authorities said.
    — Gonzalo Solano, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2023
  • But a court returned it to the last holders of the painting, the family of the caretaker of a German army barracks who had lived in Munich in 1945.
    — Catherine Hickley, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Then a horrific series of blasts rocked the barracks of Ukraine’s 72nd Mechanized Brigade near Kyiv.
    — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2023
  • In a stroke of luck, the brigade had been deployed at the time, and few remained in the barracks; Ukraine reported that only one person was injured in the attack.
    — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Womack was taken to the Maryland State Police barrack in Centreville and placed in a cell.
    — baltimoresun.com, 26 Jan. 2022
  • For weeks, the new guards have been training for the solemn occasion in the small courtyard within their small barracks tucked inside Vatican City gates.
    — Phoebe Natanson, ABC News, 6 May 2024
  • On several occasions, the guards locked Tokunaga and his friends in their barracks.
    — Jonathan Van Harmelen, The Mercury News, 19 Mar. 2024

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