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

Fisher recalls endless hours spent gazing out of his bedroom window, waiting for the barn door to his grandfather’s airplane hangar to open.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 20, 2022

“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

When I was at last backing her into the shafts, Dad called me over to the barn door.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck