Example sentences for: barred

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

  • It’s easy to imagine the elegance of the Bund in its heyday, when the gardens were barred to dogs and Chinese, in that order.

  • Carey was barred, say the papers, because he misused his power by tolerating and engaging in various laundering schemes to funnel money from his union's general fund to his own election effort.

  • The planned new Roman city, Aelia Capitolina, was built over the ruins of Herodian Jerusalem, and Jews were barred from residing there for all time.

  • For instance, it outlawed information about birth control and many other forms of free speech; it enforced Jim Crow laws in the South; it denied women the right to vote and barred them from many occupations and activities.

  • In half an hour of questions, reporters manage to glean nothing--not a single picayune detail--except the obvious fact that Clinton's lawyers have barred any public discussion.


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