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Recent Examples of kraalThe kraal was a circular affair about 30 feet in diameter and was made of rocks piled about three feet high.—Cyril E. Holland, Outdoor Life, 8 May 2025 The tiger had jumped into the kraal and killed the calves first.—Cyril E. Holland, Outdoor Life, 8 May 2025 In fact, by 1978, black children could be shot on sight for leaving their family's kraal, or homestead.—Alexandra Fuller, Travel + Leisure, 21 Aug. 2020 Inspired by a traditional kraal (village) and surrounded by four savannahs, the lodge is home to 30 wildlife species — zebras, giraffes, flamingos, and gazelles — some of which can be spotted wandering past room windows.—Alisha Prakash, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2020 Next to each tent was a protective kraal of thorn brush for the animals at night.—Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Dec. 2018
During the Civil War, a deadline was a line of demarcation around the inner stockade of a prison camp, generally about 17 feet.
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Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 June 2025
The first was named after the legislature of the Texas Republic, although the first capitol, a log structure tucked behind a defensive stockade, rose not on Congress, but at West Eighth and Colorado streets.
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Michael Barnes,
Austin American-Statesman,
3 Sep. 2024
At the very top of the house, in a former dovecote with oxeye windows, there’s now a yoga studio and a roof deck with a hair-raising view of the river valley.
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Jo Rodgers,
Vogue,
3 May 2024
Surrounded by redwood trees, the half-timbered home has multiple rooflines and gables, three stand-alone dovecotes that look like little towers, and a fence of irregularly curving bricks.
Regardless, two Kerri balls and one Mistress ball were placed in the sacred Drag Race Bingo cage, but whose name did Bruno pull out?
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Andy Swift,
TVLine,
11 July 2025
But in the 43 games he’s missed since suffering a severe quad injury on May 23, he’s been just as impactful from the sidelines, picking up on pitcher cues from the dugout, chatting before and even during at-bats with his teammates, in hitters meetings and in individual instruction in the cage.
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