barn door
Example Sentences
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“The backstop becomes more important when the barn door is open,” said Matt Gardner, a senior fellow at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a progressive group.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2025
But ultimately, “access to pasture” means just that—the barn door is open, says Kestrel Burcham, a policy director at the Cornucopia Institute, a nonprofit consumer watchdog group.
From National Geographic • Feb. 16, 2024
The “urban one bedroom” he shared with his longtime roommate in Bellevue was 600 square feet with just a barn door for his roommate’s room and the hallway/living room area for him.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 23, 2023
“It’s always better to have a lock on the barn door than to go chase the horse once it’s out,” he said in an interview.
From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2022
Roskus was milking the cow in the barn door.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
