How to Use barbed wire in a Sentence

barbed wire

noun
  • The barbed wire along the walls ripped their clothes clean off.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Some climbed over barbed wire and cut their way through fences.
    — Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2019
  • British flags are duct taped to lamp posts wrapped in barbed wire.
    — New York Times, 13 July 2021
  • On the roof of one shed were three ancient coils of barbed wire.
    — Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2022
  • And how long did that little twig and barbed wire fence run for?
    — Fox News, 1 July 2018
  • Tacks aren't as bad as other things like light tubes, barbed wire.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2020
  • There are fences, barbed wire around it, armed guards with guns for children.
    — Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 July 2019
  • It was encircled by a chain-link fence topped in barbed wire.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 12 June 2022
  • The fence has several lawyers of barbed wire on the very top of it.
    — Brett Clarkson, Sun-Sentinel.com, 18 Oct. 2017
  • The dusty camp was ringed with barbed wire and guarded by armed watchmen.
    — Amy Qin Ruth Fremson, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The walls don’t sag, and the property is not ringed by barbed wire.
    — Don Stacom, courant.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • The mound loomed next to me, well preserved behind a barbed wire fence.
    — Peter Kujawinski, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Young added that the inmates used bedsheets to climb over the barbed wire fence.
    — Fox News, 22 May 2018
  • Above a fence topped with barbed wire, the top of a drilling rig was visible.
    — Ian James, The Arizona Republic, 5 Feb. 2022
  • Today, across the mines and barbed wire, that light shines brighter than ever.
    — Drew Broach, NOLA.com, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Kill it with fire, salt the earth, and cover over with concrete and barbed wire.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Mud homes line the barbed wire fence at the edge of the main airport in Agadez.
    — Carley Petesch, Fox News, 23 Apr. 2018
  • That’s any type of arms—throwing stars, a light saber, a baseball bat with barbed wire.
    — Jason Johnson, The Root, 5 Apr. 2018
  • In the 1930s chain-link fencing topped with barbed wire went up.
    — Matthew Segal, Los Angeles Magazine, 18 June 2018
  • To pick up the historic route, follow the old barbed wire fence to a gate near the edge of the canyon.
    — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 8 July 2022
  • Video images showed crowds gathered in the dark outside the walls topped with barbed wire.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 21 Aug. 2021
  • Police have installed a barbed wire perimeter around where the crime took place at the mall.
    — Fox News, 23 Nov. 2021
  • The mountainous border is scarred with barbed wire, tank traps, land mines and guard posts.
    — Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2018
  • With hooks and a long rope, the activists pulled at parts of the barbed wire adjacent to the fence.
    — Fares Akram, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Our craft found an opening blown in the steel and barbed wire defenses at the beach and ploughed through.
    — Washington Post, 4 June 2019
  • All the snakes are appliqué, and the barbed wire is free motion embroidery.
    — Liz Raiss, GQ, 13 Apr. 2018
  • The Saturn hit a dirt ravine and barbed wire fence then rolled, Garrow said.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2022
  • About 10 years ago David Adam scratched his finger on a barbed wire fence.
    — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Once inside this area, the thief/thieves could cut the barbed wire to access the vehicles.
    — Erik S. Hanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 May 2021
  • People can get used to anything—the sea, the southern stars, love, a bunk in a prison, the barbed wire of the camps.
    — Aaron Lake Smith, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019

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