How to Use barbed in a Sentence

barbed

adjective

• The candidates exchanged barbed comments during the debate.
• The flea’s barbed tail gets caught in the throats of fish, so fish spit them out.
  — Tim Folger, Environment, 2 Dec. 2020
• The men jumped the barbed wire fence, calling Cameron's name.
  — Rory Linnane, Journal Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2024
• Once the poop is in the water, no amount of barbed wire can get it out.
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 16 Aug. 2024
• There’s a gate topped with barbed wire to keep the riffraff out, and then long and winding stairs down to the sea.
  — Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 13 Sep. 2023
• In the cartoon, Dr. Li was wearing a mask of barbed wires.
  — New York Times, 15 Jan. 2021
• Insert one end of the barbed union all the way into the open end of the hose, and secure the hose over the union with the clamp.
  — Will Sutherland, Popular Mechanics, 14 July 2021
• And losing a ball ... over the barbed wire fence ... over the highway ... into the trees.
  — Regions Tradition, AL.com, 21 May 2017
• The Porches trawled up the outside of the cemetery, which was lined with ivy and barbed wire.
  — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 12 Feb. 2024
• The White men had crushed his skull and tied a cotton-gin fan to his neck with barbed wire.
  — Deneen L. Brown, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
• On the other side of their garden wall, beyond the barbed wire, is the death camp Auschwitz.
  — Hazlitt, 6 Mar. 2024
• The Taser can fire two barbed darts that are connected to thin wires.
  — Matt McKinney, Star Tribune, 12 Apr. 2021
• Almost 4 feet tall and nearly 8 feet wide, the plane is wrapped in a strict grid of barbed wire.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024
• At night my mother would look through the barbed wire fence to get a glimpse of my father.
  — Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2024
• Where’s that man who’d throw blankets over my barbed wire?
  — Erin Browne, Vulture, 19 Apr. 2024
• Left behind among the piles of trash are clotheslines made from barbed wire.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
• Others have hopped fences or cut the barbed wire to access the monolith.
  — Tiney Ricciardi, The Denver Post, 1 July 2024
• The video has since been revised, and the image replaced with an image of barbed wire.
  — oregonlive, 9 Apr. 2023
• This is a problem that is not going to be solved by putting guards on the border or barbed wire.
  — Albinson Linares, NBC News, 3 Apr. 2024
• When shotgun season opens, whole teams of hunters fan out in a line and plow through the barbed brush to get the deer up and running.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Dec. 2020
• Brooks has to retrieve cows that slip through the barbed wire fence around the site and chew the wells’ rusting metal and drink wastewater.
  — Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 6 May 2024
• Trump has cracked down on that front, while employing barbed rhetoric.
  — Tom Benning, Dallas News, 24 Aug. 2020
• His skull was crushed, one was eye dislodged and a cotton-gin fan was tied around his neck with barbed wire.
  — Deneen L. Brown, Washington Post, 23 July 2023
• In El Sereno, where crime has been increasing, barbed-wire fences line the street-level train tracks.
  — Rachel Uranga, oregonlive, 17 Jan. 2022
• The strained muteness of the room portended the peril that might of a sudden befall me with this barbed turn.
  — David Wright Faladé, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2020
• One side of the trail is framed by a wall of tall cholla, a plant famous for wicked barbed spines like those of a porcupine.
  — Jason H. Harper, Robb Report, 14 Mar. 2021
• The valve equipment appears to have been protected by a chain-link fence topped with barbed wire.
  — Juan A. Lozano, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024
• The short clip shows an adult skunk gnawing on the hind leg of a fawn that’s tucked into short cover just behind a barbed wire fence.
  — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 23 May 2024
• Cattle and horse ranchers have since added their own fences, and there is now a tapestry of old barbed wire and woven sheep wire strung across the region.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 10 Oct. 2024
• The Chinese fence traces a furrow in the Himalayas, its barbed wire and concrete ramparts separating Tibet from Nepal.
  — New York Times, 11 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024