bares

Example Sentences

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We passed byres and stables, wary looking cows and nervy sheep still in their pens.

From BBC • May 16, 2022

It is now expected to sell off a series of less significant buildings, including bungalows, byres and farm steadings gifted in wills, and lease other major properties to charities, trusts and private tenants.

From The Guardian • Aug. 9, 2010

The visitors came up the narrow road through the forest from the south; they filled the spare-rooms, they bunked out in cow byres and barns.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

Pippin could see all the Pelennor laid out before him, dotted into the distance with farmsteads and little walls, barns and byres, but nowhere could he see any kine or other beasts.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

When Neil Ross reached the byres of the farm in the wide hollow, he saw two figures standing as though awaiting him, but separate, and unseen of the other.

From The Best Psychic Stories by Various