- present participle of debar.
debarring
Example Sentences
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In New York City absence is the sole condition for debarring any pupil, since he must have pursued a subject the prescribed time.
From The High School Failures A Study of the School Records of Pupils Failing in Academic or Commercial High School Subjects by Francis P. Obrien
He chose a surer, safer revenge in taking no steps to procure a divorce, and so debarring Ralph from his only means of atonement—marriage with his victim.
From Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence
When the Athenian law debarring all but freemen from the exercise of art was enacted, Creon was at work trying to realize in marble the vision his soul had created.
From Eclectic School Readings: Stories from Life by Orison Swett Marden
"It simply excruciates me from you," he had said, thus debarring her from that only appellation which would certainly be the easiest, and which seemed to her the only one becoming.
From Marion Fay by Anthony Trollope
“No,” he said; “that would be debarring myself from escaping.”
From Commodore Junk by George Manville Fenn
