barbed wire

Definition:
1. Strong wire with barbs at regular intervals used to prevent passage.
2. Strong wire with short sharp points on it, used especially for fences.

Use 'barbed wire' in a sentence:

• 1. Back and forth next to the barbed wire fence trying to keep my emaciated2 body warm.
• 2. The prisoners cut their way through the barbed wire and escaped.
• 3. To farm the plains, he needed barbed wire for fences, and plows and other new equipment.
• 4. There's broken glass everywhere, there's rusted barbed wire everywhere, the level of pollution is insane.
• 5. This is a collection room for barbed wire?
• 6. Lincoln throws the jumpsuits on the barbed wire, creating a gap.
• 7. At dawn we broke through the barbed wire entanglements under the city wall.
• 8. There were no signs marking the international border, no fences, no barbed wire.
• 9. A 16-year-old girl died last night after riding a makeshift sledge into a barbed wire fence.
• 10. We made our way through the thick brush, undergrowth, and the trees until we came to a wooden post fence with barbed wire.
• 11. The compound had twelve-foot-high walls topped with barbed wire.
• 12. In Kiboko, Kenya, a barbed wire fence separates a field of hybrid corn from the surrounding lands.
• 13. Asked to describe "Israel house", one focus group imagined it as arid, all-male and surrounded by barbed wire.
• 14. Lincoln holds open a gap in a barbed wire fence. Tweener runs in too quickly and slices his hand on the wire.
• 15. World Wide Standard Seismograph Network His land is fenced with barbed wire.
• 16. The soft background of the cloud-filled blue sky contrasts well with the barbed wire foreground.
• 17. Behind the pillboxes were more lines of barbed wire and more trenches and dugouts reinforced with concrete to withstand artillery bombardment.
• 18. We step over the barbed wire into the pasture.
• 19. Back and forth next to the barbed wire fence trying to keep my body warm.
• 20. Then how'd you get caught in the barbed wire?
• 21. concentration camps, really, many will spend their entire lives from cradle-to-grave behind barbed wire.
• 22. The barbed wire fences serve as a reminder of the horrors of the past.
• 23. The fence consisted of two slack strands of barbed wire.
• 24. People are surrounding their homes with barbed wire fences.
• 25. The whale carcass left by the Inupiaq whale hunters is surrounded by a barbed wire fence.
• 26. Units using Barbed Wire Cutters are now significantly more susceptible to damage while cutting barbed wire.
• 27. Giant loops of barbed wire lie rusting in the surf.
• 28. Lincoln moves across the cable and almost slips, but he regains his grip and makes it to the barbed wire lined wall.
• 29. After all, we face no concrete walls, no barbed wire.
• 30. Suddenly, I notice a young girl walking past on the other side of the barbed wire.
• 31. Her hair get all tangle up in the barbed wire fence.
• 32. A Study of Effect of Mode to Fix Tubular Barbed Wire on ESP Dust Collection.
• 33. There, we looked at the tall walls and barbed wire frustrated.
• 34. Saw the barbed wire fence, didn't you?
• 35. The prisoners cut their way through the barbed wire.
• 36. A coiled barbed wire used as an obstacle.
• 37. Peaceful circulation has been interrupted by barbed wire and concrete blocks.
• 38. The above picture portrays Agim Shala, a two-year-old boy, who is passed through a fence made with barbed wire to his family.
• 39. I finally managed to disentangle myself from the barbed wire.
• 40. But the images are violent: barbed wire, blood, radioactive symbols.
• 41. The victim was first bound with barbed wire and his mouth stuffed with rags.
• 42. There were extraordinary security measures at the compound, including 3-5 metre-high walls topped with barbed wire.
• 43. invents something that changes the face of America: Barbed wire.
• 44. Long line prestressed concrete His land was fenced with barbed wire.
• 45. Completed in 2005, it is much larger than other homes in the area, and surrounded by high walls topped with barbed wire.
• 46. A three-story building sits in the middle of the compound surrounded by concrete walls some 14 feet high that are topped by barbed wire and contained security cameras.
• 47. A barbed wire fence and a wide ditch protect the growing hill of ash: any attempt to approach brings the guards out in force.
• 48. Plots of land have been demarcated by barbed wire.
• 49. His property is fenced with barbed wire.
• 50. The barbed wire had left only the tiniest nick just below my right eye.
• 51. His jacket had been torn to shreds by the barbed wire.
• 52. The factory was surrounded by barbed wire.