barbed wire
Example Sentences
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Barbed-wire fencing went up Aug. 13, 1961, followed by the concrete wall.
From Chicago Tribune • Nov. 8, 2014
Barbed-wire fences had been strung across the refuge to accommodate livestock grazing.
From Washington Times • Jul. 5, 2014
Barbed-wire fencing went up August 13, 1961, followed by the concrete wall.
From Washington Post
Barbed-wire barricades went up in front of the U.S. embassy and other key U.S. installations.
From Time Magazine Archive
Barbed-wire entanglements, seven rows deep sometimes, trailed in front of them, through timber, through the long grass and flowers of marsh-land, a wicked foggy band against the green as far as one could see.
From Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them by Ruhl, Arthur
