How to use "barricade" in a sentence

'Your friends are waiting for you at the barricade in the rue de Chanvrerie.'

As soon as the fighting started, Enjolras and several of his friends started to build a barricade outside the Corinth wine shop in the rue de la Chanvrerie, a small street surrounded by dark alleys in the market district of Paris

Having run to tell Marius that his friends were waiting for him, she was helping Enjolras and his companions to build the barricade

Enjolras, who was the leader of the rebels, organized the building of a second barricade and the manufacture of bullets from melted silver

The tall, grey-haired man was doing useful work on the larger barricade, and Eponine (whom everyone thought was a boy) worked hard too

While the fifty men behind the barricade waited impatiently for the arrival of sixty thousand soldiers, Enjolras approached the tall, grey-haired man.

'You'll be shot two minutes before the barricade falls,' Enjolras informed him.

When he reached the stronghold, soldiers were already climbing the barricade, shooting at the rebels

Soldiers now occupied the top of the barricade, but were unable to advance any further because the defenders fought so fiercely

'Put down your weapons and surrender!' a soldier called from the top of the barricade.

The survivors were reloading their guns in silence, when suddenly a loud voice called, 'Get out now, or I'll blow up the barricade!'

Marius was standing at the foot of the barricade, holding a flaming torch above a barrel of gunpowder.

'If you blow up the barricade,' a sergeant called, 'you'll blow up yourself as well!'

Within seconds, the soldiers had left the barricade, leaving their dead and wounded behind, and were running into the darkness at the far end of the street.

While the soldiers waited at the far end of the street for further orders, and the rebels removed dead bodies from the barricade and took care of the wounded, Marius walked around the stronghold in a kind of dream

As he was walking by the smaller barricade, his thoughts were interrupted by a weak voice calling his name from the shadows.

'That letter comes from the barricade in the rue de la Chanvrerie,' the boy replied

During the night, the thirty-seven remaining rebels strengthened the main barricade and made more bullets

Jean Valjean, who had arrived unnoticed at the barricade, had been listening to the argument and had quickly understood the situation.

The barricade was stronger than it had been for the first assault, and the rebels were at their positions, guns loaded and ready for action

The rebels fired their guns but, when the smoke had cleared, they saw the soldiers, unharmed, steadily aiming the cannon at the barricade

The cannonball crashed into the bottom of the barricade with a loud explosion, but did little damage

The next cannonball exploded against the wall at one end of the barricade, killing two men and wounding three.

He aimed his gun over the barricade at the leader of the gun crew, and fired

The battle continued for some time; the cannon destroyed the upper windows of the wine shop, and did some damage to the barricade, but the rebels did not withdraw

As other guns began firing at the smaller barricade, the rebels fought back bravely, but they were running out of bullets

There were only twenty-six men left, and the main attack on the barricade was going to take place very soon

Some men, including Marius, stayed on the main barricade, while the others built a low stone wall around the door of the wine shop

'They're coming!' cried Marius from the top of the barricade.

Only Marius, looking over his shoulder, saw them cross the stronghold towards the smaller barricade

Valjean, his gun in one hand, pulled Javert behind him over the barricade and into a narrow alley, where the corner of a house hid them from view

There was a roar of gunfire and the soldiers attacked, rushing towards the barricade

Many fell, but many more reached the barricade

Soon, the ground below the barricade was piled with dead and wounded men as the rebels and soldiers fought hand to hand

They stood with their backs to the door, shooting up at the soldiers who were climbing down towards them from the barricade

On the other side was the low barricade, behind which hundreds of soldiers waited for rebels trying to escape

Valjean looked desperately around him, at the house opposite, the barricade, the ground

At the foot of the smaller barricade, half-hidden by broken stones and pieces of wood, there was a hole in the road covered with an iron grille

The soldiers might discover the grille by the barricade at any moment, and come down in search of him.

'He was on the barricade and

He thought about Enjolras and Eponine, and wondered why Cosette's father had been at the barricade

He could not believe that this was the same man he had seen at the barricade all those months ago - it seemed like a bad dream to him.

Marius's attempts to find him also ended in failure, and the true story of his escape from the barricade remained a complete mystery to him.

Apart from the details about his life that Valjean had confessed to him, he knew that Valjean had killed Inspector Javert at the barricade

He came to the barricade to save me, just as he saved Javert

Madeleine and that you saved Javert's life at the barricade? Why didn't you tell me that I owed you my life?'