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How to use barbed in a sentence

18 example sentences · adjective

Barbed means having barbs. Example: “The rancher used staples to attach the barbed wire to the fence posts.”

Examples of barbed by meaning

adjectiveHaving barbs of a certain colour (as or similar to an arrow); beared.

  • The cross barbed has its limbs terminated by arrow-heads; it is sometimes emblazoned cramponée and tournée, but Edmondson gives the last name to a totally different cross, one not unlike the cross fourchée.1915, Guy Cadogan Rothery, A. B. C. of Heraldry, page 24

More sentences with barbed

  • The rancher used staples to attach the barbed wire to the fence posts.From the entry staple
  • He fumbled at the dart but the needle was barbed and wouldn't come out.2008, Charlotte Boyett-Compo, In the Arms of the Wind, page 144. From the entry tranq
  • "No, this was more a night of bellowed barbed badinage, boisterous BS, outrageous declamations and defiant roars."2005 October 31, The Times, London. From the entry badinage
  • When barbed and seeded proper the barbs or leaves are green and the seeds yellow.1968, Charles MacKinnon of Dunakin, The Observer's Book of Heraldry, pages 72–73. From the entry seeded
  • Her coat was a tangled mass, barbed with last year's burs, matted disgustingly with cow dung.1944, Emily Carr, “Meg the Worker”, in The House of All Sorts. From the entry barb
  • I'm revisiting all my favorite Y2K trends, including slogan tees, trucker hats, wedge flip-flops, and barbed wire tramp stamps.2024 July 25, Meg Donohue, Dale Chong, “Same Same But Different: We're Feeling Bratty This Summer”, in Elle, archived from the original on…. From the entry bratty
  • Barbed wire is also known as an anticlimbing device.2022 November 27, “Main Components of Overhead transmission & Distribution lines”, in Electrical Desks. From the entry anticlimbing
  • Behind his private tent was a yard enclosed by barbed wire and shaded by the camp's only juazeiro tree.2008, Frances de Pontes Peebles, The Seamstress, New York: HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 565. From the entry juazeiro
  • It was a prickler, with many sharply barbed leaves.2003, Piers Anthony, Key to Chroma, page 376. From the entry prickler
  • She does hardcore barbed wire baseball bat death matches.1998 January 6, Ol' BattleMonkey, “Disturbing Michelle Yeoh trend....”, in alt.asian-movies (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Jul…. From the entry the cat's pajamies
  • Embryo beaches are guarded by barbed wire and mines.[1973 November 4, “Matsu is strong, prosperous”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIV, number 43, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2. From the entry Nangan
  • A rose Gules barbed and seeded proper.1968, Charles MacKinnon of Dunakin, The Observer's Book of Heraldry, pages 72–73. From the entry seeded
  • Each successive incisive sentence of his opponent had been like a barbed bandarillo in the flanks of a foaming bull.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html)…. From the entry bandarillo
  • On a wreath of the colors argent and tenné four lightning flashes barbed radiate pilewise of the first, a Roman helm or garnished gules.2005, Rebecca R. Raines, Signal Corps, Department of the Army, page 117. From the entry radiate
  • "Feather Merchants" is G.I. slang for civilians, and Max Shulman has done a book which points out why with a million irreverent, barbed laughs.1944, The Publishers Weekly - Volume 145, page 1193. From the entry feather merchant
  • Trapped behind barbed wire, but increasingly prosperous, East Germany began to resemble the gilded cage of the eastern bloc, at least in the eyes of its socialist neighbours.2023 April 2, Jacob Mikanowski, “Beyond the Wall by Katja Hoyer review – the human face of the socialist state”, in The Observer, →ISSN. From the entry gilded cage
  • Strauss himself created "Stylemogging", a more subtle technique in which one uses barbed compliments to establish oneself as the supreme arbitrator of whatever is under discussion.2005 September 3, “Operation pick up”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2020. From the entry stylemog

Meaning of barbed

  1. adjective Having barbs.
  2. adjective Having barbs of a certain colour (as or similar to an arrow); beared.
  3. adjective Having gills or wattles (as a bird); wattled.

Full definition of barbed

Questions about barbed in a sentence

How do you use barbed in a sentence?
Barbed is used as an adjective. For example: “The rancher used staples to attach the barbed wire to the fence posts.”
What is a short sentence with barbed?
“A rose Gules barbed and seeded proper.”
What does barbed mean?
Barbed means having barbs.

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