Example sentences for: barbed

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

  • And if you want to go way back: In 1934, the Cannon family averted labor unrest by calling in the National Guard and decorating the tops of their factories with machine guns and barbed wire.

  • 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."

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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