Example sentences for: barbed

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

  • The New York Times describes his eulogy, with its description of Diana as "the most hunted woman on earth," as "passionate," and the Washington Post says it was "barbed and biting."

  • Mostly she tries to make him feel like hell via barbed remarks and/or the silent treatment for "deserting his family" in order to be with me.

  • The wall started out as barbed wire and road blocks, but refugees continued to make their way through the barriers, by swimming through sewers and canals and jumping from buildings and railway bridges — risking life and limb for freedom and democracy.

  • Hungary was the first country to draw back its Iron Curtain, dismantling the barbed wire along its Austrian border and allowing East Germans to escape to the West.

  • A French soldier was seriously hurt during a melee as a mob of around 150 men tried to charge across the bridge to north Mitrovica as soldiers strung barbed wire across it.


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