barbed

Example Sentences

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He’ll stick around through the series, offering barbed commentary and something like support: “If I humiliate you, it’s to save you from the bigger humiliation of remaining as you are.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

In Jhapa, soldiers with armoured trucks manned barbed wire barricades around the counting centre.

From Barron's • Mar. 7, 2026

The O’Smach building in which they were held was surrounded by high corrugated iron walls topped with barbed wire.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

Screwworms pose a serious threat to farm animals, especially those with common injuries from barbed wire, birthing, or procedures such as dehorning.

From Science Daily • Dec. 17, 2025

We come to a stop, and I can see that there’s no visible entrance—it’s blocked off by a tall chain-link fence topped with barbed wire.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman