Sentence examples for barbed from inspiring English sources
The word "barbed" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe objects with metal points sticking out from them, or with words or phrases that are pointed and sharp. For example, "The barbed wire fence surrounded the field."
The Bible of barbed wire, Robert Clifton's "Barbs, Prongs, Points, Prickers, & Stickers" (University of Oklahoma Press, 1970, and from which this article's illustrations are drawn), lists 749 varieties of barbed wire, most of them patented and almost all devised in the peak years of westwards expansion.
Blake Lively's arm is strewn with images of butterflies on barbed wire.
"The police had coils of barbed wire on their jeeps and drove them so near the protesters that the front row got cut.
The developing story of high-level corruption (reaching the very heights of the political establishment – a dream for any decent journalist anywhere in the world) was declared by the news management to be an area surrounded by "barbed wire".
After three or four jokes - most barbed about fellow politicians, particularly those theoretically closest to him - he would get round to talk about current events.
In a second, more recent clip Kennedy traded barbed quips with the former Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson after being asked about government plans to imprison bankers.
It is fair to say that those words were of little comfort to me as I stood at the barbed-wire gates of Solsgirth Colliery on an unhelpfully cold March morning on my first picket line 20 years ago.
I ask the driver to stop, and we climb our way delicately over the barbed-wire fence.
This is an album which skewers traditional, idyllic invocations of Englishness – there are "no birds singing/ [over] The White Cliffs of Dover" in the barbed-wire strewn no-man's land of the battlefield imagined in Hanging in the Wire.
Driving back late from the border (marked by a waist-high scrappy barbed-wire fence) through Mr Chilton's ranch, the difficulties of measuring security become clear.
In a few decades, the watchtowers along the West Bank's separation wall may merge with the helicopters hovering over the US-Mexican border, the rubber bullets knocking African refugees off the barbed-wire fences in the Spanish enclave of Melilla, the South African police picking up Zimbabwean migrants and the Australian Navy ships dragging Indonesian boats back towards Sumatra.
