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
• 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
• Left behind among the piles of trash are clotheslines made from barbed wire.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 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
• 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 land was ringed by barbed wire and guarded by an armed security brigade.
  — Peter S. Goodman Jes Aznar, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2023
• In later airings and reruns of the first night of WrestleMania, the footage showed an image of barbed wire.
  — Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 7 Apr. 2023
• The tracks were no longer littered with boxes; new fencing and barbed wire had been put up beside them.
  — Malia Wollan, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
• The narrow strip is the most heavily armed borderland in the world, with minefields and barbed-wire fences.
  — Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2022
• The original barbed wire fence has been added to repeatedly over the years.
  — Curbed, 20 Oct. 2023
• The two groups were separated by barbed wire, with what appeared to be the Rio Grande behind the migrants.
  — Pilar Arias, Fox News, 7 Mar. 2024
• Female bees are the only ones that can sting.1 When you get stung by a bee, a venom sac is left behind with the barbed stinger stuck in your skin.
  — Michael Menna, Verywell Health, 11 May 2023
• People fell in love, got married, had kids who played in the streets — albeit hard by barbed wire — and grew up and fell in love and got married.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• The school itself is a large open courtyard bordered on all sides by 12-foot-high concrete walls topped with barbed wire.
  — Matt Rivers, ABC News, 31 July 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024