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
• Mud homes line the barbed wire fence at the edge of the main airport in Agadez.
  — Carley Petesch, Fox News, 23 Apr. 2018
• 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
• But first, the barbed wire fence must come down, at least on the northern end of the lake.
  — Paul Eisenberg, chicagotribune.com, 27 Mar. 2022
• 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
• Some climbed over barbed wire and cut their way through fences.
  — Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2019
• The fence has several lawyers of barbed wire on the very top of it.
  — Brett Clarkson, Sun-Sentinel.com, 18 Oct. 2017
• In the 1930s chain-link fencing topped with barbed wire went up.
  — Matthew Segal, Los Angeles Magazine, 18 June 2018
• The walls don’t sag, and the property is not ringed by barbed wire.
  — Don Stacom, courant.com, 13 Aug. 2019
• The rich live behind high walls topped with barbed wire.
  — Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2021
• Young added that the inmates used bedsheets to climb over the barbed wire fence.
  — Fox News, 22 May 2018
• And how long did that little twig and barbed wire fence run for?
  — Fox News, 1 July 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
• 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
• Above a fence topped with barbed wire, the top of a drilling rig was visible.
  — Ian James, The Arizona Republic, 5 Feb. 2022
• The mound loomed next to me, well preserved behind a barbed wire fence.
  — Peter Kujawinski, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2017
• Kill it with fire, salt the earth, and cover over with concrete and barbed wire.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 13 Sep. 2021
• Concrete barriers and barbed wire line the beach along the Sea of Azov.
  — New York Times, 9 Feb. 2022
• The dusty camp was ringed with barbed wire and guarded by armed watchmen.
  — Amy Qin Ruth Fremson, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2022
• 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
• Today, across the mines and barbed wire, that light shines brighter than ever.
  — Drew Broach, NOLA.com, 18 Oct. 2017
• There are fences, barbed wire around it, armed guards with guns for children.
  — Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 July 2019
• Don’t be fooled by the barbed wire necklaces and stacks of nose rings — Lizz Jardim is a ray of sunshine.
  — Sarah Spellings and Diana Tsui, The Cut, 19 Jan. 2018
• Tacks aren't as bad as other things like light tubes, barbed wire.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2020
• The vehicle was parked in a secured area fenced with three rows of barbed wire on top of the fence.
  — Erik S. Hanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 May 2021
• Our craft found an opening blown in the steel and barbed wire defenses at the beach and ploughed through.
  — Washington Post, 4 June 2019
• At one well, tangles of barbed wire fence had fallen over near a rusting pump jack that was erected in the 1980s.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Dec. 2022
• Fan and his brother eventually ended up in Sihanoukville in a compound surrounded by a barbed wire fence.
  — Cezary Podkul, ProPublica, 13 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024