Sentence examples for I was barking from inspiring English sources
I was barking up the wrong tree with this experimentation.
I was barking up the wrong tree, or, licking up the wrong frog, I guess".
"If I'm barking up a tree, I want to know how many squirrels are up there".
Ask her how she's doing on any given day, and she'll likely give her standard response: "I'm barking and growling, and snapping and snarling".
Or is it simply the case that I'm barking up the wrong tree and that my approach to literature would be far healthier if I just ignored such semantics and the labelling policies of high street chains?
Tell me if I am barking up the wrong tree, but also if you want to do some work with us at Oxfam to help answer this conundrum, I'm all ears.
Afterward, in the back seat of a black car speeding from the Bronx to Elaine's, the editor of my newspaper, Col Allan, and I were barking into a cellphone with the newsroom, deciding on a headline for the next day's front-page photo of the man falling into the netting.
I was like, 'Wait a minute, have I been barking up the wrong genre of tree?'" "Stephen" is a song composed in the dance-pop genre that also incorporates elements of country music.
[Feel free to offer your own thoughts in the comments as to what exactly this is going to turn out to be, or even if you think I'm barking up the wrong tree entirely.] Because I simply cannot get rid of the feeling that, sometime next January or February, President Obama is going to make a point of picking a fight with some of his own most fervent supporters.
I may have even told my friend Roger, the erstwhile President of the University of Pennsylvania Graduate Students Association, that I thought he was barking up the wrong tree.
