How to Use barrack in a Sentence

barrack

noun
  • And then to be in, again, the barracks with the cots and heavy bags and the crappy food.
    — Lori A Bashian, FOXNews.com, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Dwelling houses on one side of the street and barracks on the other.
    — Anna Purna Kambhampaty, Time, 3 Apr. 2020
  • The group was picked up in golf carts and bunked in old military barracks.
    — Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 5 Feb. 2024
  • For now, the flyboy will be resting in the barracks.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Robinson smoked his first hookah on the floor of Allawi’s barracks.
    — Benoît Morenne, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2023
  • It was used to shuttle men from their barracks to the frontline through thick mud.
    — WIRED, 6 July 2023
  • That'll get you to the closest state police barracks.
    — Tara Lynch, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026
  • In my barrack, there were around one hundred and fifty men, or perhaps a few more.
    — Fox News, 1 Apr. 2020
  • They were stripped, shaven and sent to overflowing barracks.
    — Lesley Stahl, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2026
  • This gentleman sent my dad a picture of the barracks, which was kind of cool.
    — Doug Farrar, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2020
  • The next morning, Rosario went to a work party and left her in the barracks.
    — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 17 Aug. 2023
  • When Mila came down with typhus, she was moved to a barrack for the sick to die.
    — Diane Herbst, PEOPLE.com, 7 Mar. 2022
  • The troopers took her to their barracks for questioning.
    — Rich Schapiro, NBC news, 24 June 2026
  • Many feigned mental illnesses just to leave the barracks.
    — Eve Fairbanks, The Dial, 27 Jan. 2026
  • That single gesture spared her life and sent her to the barracks instead of the gas chambers.
    — Norman B. Gildin, Sun Sentinel, 9 June 2026
  • As more workers became sick, some were isolated in one barrack.
    — jsonline.com, 20 May 2021
  • Indians rushed from the barracks.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The bus was taken to state police barracks as evidence.
    — Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The bus was taken to state police barracks as evidence.
    — Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Rationing was still in force, the athletes were put up in military barracks, schools and hostels.
    — Madeline Roache, Time, 23 Mar. 2020
  • And Cuban agents have begun to leave the barracks, the sources say — though not at the speed many in Venezuela would like.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Hannah solicited scraps of bread from other women in her barrack and stuffed it into a sock.
    — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
  • During the war, American soldiers lived in barracks near the mine.
    — Katie Lockhart, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2019
  • Dirty and unsafe military barracks put our service members at risk.
    — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Before Werhan left the police barracks, troopers seized his phone and his clothes and took swabs of his hands and face.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 25 June 2026
  • Slowly, sleeping bags, mats and warm uniforms turned up — and the unit eventually made it to a barracks.
    — Lynsey Addario Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Weaver served at all State Police barrack during his time in the uniform bureau.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Apr. 2022
  • The next day, military police at Camp Pendleton found the girl in a barracks.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Harvey then sold it to Mecom, who used the old barracks and officer's quarters for his drilling business.
    — Dana Burke, Houston Chronicle, 27 Mar. 2020
  • The fact that housing for foreign labor was modeled on barracks is central to the history of the place.
    — Pablo Larios, Artforum, 6 May 2026

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