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How to use barrow in a sentence

20 example sentences · noun

Barrow means a mountain. Example: “A costermonger's barrow is also known as a shallow.”

Examples of barrow by meaning

nounA mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.

  • “Will you ask our oldest warriors to build me a barrow?”1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 47

nounA small vehicle used to carry a load and pulled or pushed by hand.

  • In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

More sentences with barrow

  • A costermonger's barrow is also known as a shallow.From the entry costermonger
  • Now the grandchildren had been dumped on Restell, looking like changelings from a fairy barrow.1968, Ramona Stewart, Casey, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, page 321. From the entry fairy barrow
  • “Will you ask our oldest warriors to build me a barrow?1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 47. From the entry deathbed
  • Barrow gestured at him to stay put.2015, Kathy Reichs, Bones Never Lie, page 23. From the entry eyebrow
  • It seems most have withdrawn to their fairy barrows.1993, David Fuller Cook and Carl Sargent, For Faerie, Queen and Country, T S R, Incorporated, page 81. From the entry fairy barrow
  • He was pushing a barrow on the fish dock, wheeling aluminium kits which, when full, each contain 10 stone of fish.1961 18 Jan, Guardian (cited after OED). From the entry kit
  • They were popularly known as barrow- men.1926, Joseph Jackson, America's most historic highway, Market street, Philadelphia, page 286. From the entry barrow man
  • After digging up the anthills, they crush the soil, sift it and then cart it to their fields by oxdrawn carts or wheel barrows.2019 December 6, Elliott Siamonga, “Input prices derail cropping season preparations”, in The Chronicle, →OCLC, archived from the original…. From the entry oxdrawn
  • Fig. 89 Distribution of barrow cemeteries around Stonehenge and other Neolithic monuments: 1. round barrows, 2. long barrows, C. the Cursus, LC.1979, J[ohn] M[orton] Coles, A[nthony] F[ilmer] Harding, The Bronze Age in Europe: An Introduction to the Prehistory of Europe, c.2000-700…. From the entry cursūs
  • Another wheel toy was a baker's barrow on wheels, 14 inches high; it was filled with buns, loaves, and crumpets and came from Hamley's.1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 84. From the entry peep
  • Barrow Haven: The replacement £1.3 million single platform, alongside the installation of waiting shelter and cycle racks at the Barton-on-Humber branch station, should be operational by early August.2022 July 13, Howard Johnston, “Regional News: Eastern”, in RAIL, number 961, page 32. From the entry cycle rack
  • Delivery carts piled high with furniture, hay and crates negotiated their way between the fly-pitch barrows selling the early catch from Billingsgate market half a mile away.2012, Jean Fullerton, Hold on to Hope, →ISBN, page 25. From the entry fly-pitch
  • His theory was simple: so many of the barrow boys trading on LIFFE read the currant bun that the markets were bound to do whatever its money column said.2008, Nicola Monaghan, Starfishing, London: Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 87. From the entry currant bun
  • I had to collect up all the scrawny dead birds with their swollen blind eyes, throw them into a barrow and take them to the boilerhouse for burning.2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 23, in Small Island, London: Review, page 244. From the entry boilerhouse
  • The nurse is old Cathrine, who was telling the servants about the trolls and the elf barrow while they were preparing the feast in the forest.1992, Johannes Møllehave, A Folk Legend, Copenhagen: Sesam, page 32. From the entry elf barrow
  • Those who cannot play any instrument wheel a gramophone through the streets on a barrow, but the largest number of these street musicians are organ grinders.1929, George Orwell, “Beggars in London”, in An Inquiry into “Civic Progress” in England. From the entry organ grinder
  • But now the sight of Henscombe wheeling his beribboned, bebottled, beshoed barrow through the main thoroughfare of the metropolis awoke New York to a sense of the ridiculous reality.1908, The Scrap Book, page 532. From the entry beshoe
  • It was not unusual for the older girls to stay on after 5 p.m. for another two hours or so, to buck or cob an extra one or two barrows.2004, Lynne Mayers, Balmaidens, The Hypatia Trust,, →ISBN, page 28. From the entry cob

Meaning of barrow

  1. noun A mountain.
  2. noun A hill.
  3. noun A mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.

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Questions about barrow in a sentence

How do you use barrow in a sentence?
Barrow is used as a noun. For example: “A costermonger's barrow is also known as a shallow.”
What is a short sentence with barrow?
“Barrow gestured at him to stay put.”
What does barrow mean?
Barrow means a mountain.

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