barbed wire

Example Sentences

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Would all that scoring energy wear down in the barbed wire?

From Washington Post

They were imprisoned in remote Idaho facilities ringed with barbed wire and guard towers manned by armed soldiers who were their fellow U.S. citizens.

From Los Angeles Times

All the camps, whether temporary like Santa Anita or permanent like Manzanar in the Owens Valley, were secured with searchlights, guard towers, barbed wire and armed guards.

From Los Angeles Times

Built on a stretch of land the size of 10 football fields, the soldiers’ no-man’s-land nightmare environment would eventually be populated with barbed wire, bomb craters, animal carcasses and corpses.

From Los Angeles Times

A secondary fence topped with barbed wire and parallel to the primary one was built under President Obama.

From Los Angeles Times