barriers

Example Sentences

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So why the insistence on creating new marriers to benefits now, at a time when no one could credibly argue that our economic woes are due to a sudden outbreak of employee laziness?

From The Guardian • May 31, 2018

It's not that the multiple marriers want to get divorced or hate marriage.

From Time • Apr. 22, 2010

The Brebos family were famous organ-builders in the fifteenth century; they were famous marriers, too,—but one of them met his match, Jean, called to Spain, married there a widow, Marianna Hita, with one son.

From The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1 by Hughes, Rupert

And you'll have us marry her, here be them come of the marriers.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 by Hazlitt, William Carew