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Example sentences for: barbed

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Oberon's famous barbed greeting "Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania," makes little sense when Titania (Michelle Pfeiffer) sits glowering behind a curtain.
The stiff upper lip has been replaced by the barbed, blabbing tongue; reticence by confession; traditionalism by populism.
After a few days, befriended and coached by these veterans of a different time and a different kind of war, most of us revived enough to make do behind the barbed wire in the blighted landscape.
Even fiercer is a high-heeled sandal by Todd Oldham with straps of spiky barbed wire that cross the foot and climb up around the calf.
The current round of barbed paeans to the White House PR machine echoes press grousing during the Reagan years, when reporters sought to explain why the public supported a president they believed was ineffective and incompetent.