Example sentences for: barbed

How can you use “barbed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • “Bob wire” (for barbed wire ) may qualify as elevated Slurvian.

  • The Waikiki hotels housed soldiers; the white sands were strung with barbed wire; and even the American currency in local circulation was stamped as HAWAII dollars, so that the enemy could not spend it on the world market if the islands fell.

  • 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.

  • He writes up his alarming conclusions in a 473-page book; full of startling facts about the changes underway in technology and the global market; larded with phrases in Japanese, German, Chinese, and even Malay; and punctuated with occasional barbed remarks about the blinkered vision of conventional economists.

  • 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.


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