How to Use barn in a Sentence

barn

noun
  • They live in a big barn of a house.
  • Then there’s the gold muscle car in the middle of the barn.
    Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The haunted hayride, barn and trail open Sept. 29-Oct. 29.
    Annie Alleman, Chicago Tribune, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Tazz was found in a barn about a mile away from his home.
    Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 22 July 2024
  • The well is next to the farm’s barn and only about 100 yards from the landowners’ house.
    Delger Erdenesanaa, New York Times, 24 May 2024
  • Eight airplane-hangar-size barns stand in a row, and eight more across the road.
    Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2023
  • There are tack rooms, feed rooms, and office space in the barns as well.
    Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Many of the horses at Del Mar are housed in stalls in the barns behind the backstretch.
    Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2023
  • About 20 feet below the balcony, on the floor of the large domed barn, two of the half-dozen dairy cows were butting heads.
    Arielle Gordon Alexandra Genova, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The 2,182-acre ranch has a main house, storage building and barn.
    oregonlive, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The two-story house where his father lives stood in the clearing, along with the barn.
    Steven Kurutz, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Police spoke to the owner of the farm, who explained that the cows had free range of the fields and were able to come in and out of the barn.
    Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Jan. 2023
  • As the sun sets, hidden just behind a barn off to the west, the sky fills with the warmest of colors.
    Mykal McEldowney, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Nov. 2022
  • Staff also walk through the barns daily during the state fair.
    Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The refugees had been spotted by guards, and Bricha guides had shooed their charges into a barn.
    Rebecca Frankel, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The ranch includes a three-bedroom home and a large barn and cattle pens.
    Steve Brown, Dallas News, 28 May 2023
  • The home was fully fenced and included a barn with two stalls.
    Robyn A. Friedman, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2023
  • But does that simply mean an open door in a barn or acres of green pastures to roam?
    Chris Mohr, Phd, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Police found the van last Sunday, in a field behind a barn.
    Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Goedhardt said there is nowhere safe enough, or large enough, to move his barn of cows.
    Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 11 May 2023
  • The virus can find its way into barns via dust particles or on the sole of a farmer’s boot.
    Andrew Jacobs, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
  • And his comic book wife Sophia never made it out of the barn alive all the way back in season 2.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Boyd and Tian-Chen push-pull the last cow to the barn, slam shut the door and Boyd slaps a talisman down to protect them.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2024
  • The ranch has an outdoor arena and a main barn with 30 oversize stalls.
    Dallas News, 12 Dec. 2022
  • At a fundraiser at a barn in Maine a few weeks later, Biden went public with the deal.
    Josh Boak and Aamer Madhani, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The video features Kevin and Kyra singing on a bench outside one of their barns, while Kevin plays the tune on a guitar.
    Terri Robertson, Country Living, 16 June 2023
  • The nearly 4-acre site currently has a house and barn, which would be razed.
    Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 23 July 2024
  • Alyssa said they were stuck in a little barn, which was OK for the time being, but not if more rain comes.
    David Showers, Lance Brownfield/hot Springs Sentinel-Record, Arkansas Online, 12 May 2023
  • Damn! Maggie leaves the barn to have a panic attack, and Donald talks her through it, which is nice.
    James Grebey, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Twice a year, the lawn at the barn hosts dozens of vendors at its Sweet Violet's Vintage Market.
    Jennifer Prince, Southern Living, 19 Oct. 2024

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