barbed

Example Sentences

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“Them quills is barbed at the business end,” he said over the sound of J.W.’s squealing.

From Literature

But which in the war, in the French terminology of the war, meant “barbed wire.”

From Literature

In Jhapa, soldiers with armoured trucks manned barbed wire barricades around the counting centre.

From Barron's

The pockmarked earth on Johannesburg's eastern fringe, until last week a humble cattle kraal ringed with barbed wire, now stands as the unlikely centre of South Africa's latest gold fever.

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On opposite sides of the makeshift barricade, fronted by coils of barbed wire, Cambodians lamented their lost homes and livelihoods as Thailand's military showed off its gains.

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