Sentence examples for barbwire from inspiring English sources
The word 'barbwire' is correct and usable in written English
You would use it when describing barbed wire, a type of wire fencing with sharp steel points. For example, "The farmer strung the barbwire around the perimeter of his property to keep out trespassers."
noun
Alternative spelling of barbed wire
It was also reported that he had been entangled in barbwire".
A serious blizzard and fatal cold began to slide down from the Canadian plains that night, and when it broke twelve days later the herds were decimated, cows packed ten deep against barbwire fences, pronghorn congealed into statues, trains stalled for three weeks by forty-foot drifts, and two cowpunchers in a line shack frozen together in a buffalo robe.
It was still open country, though barbwire was coming in with the nesters.
Some of the original chock-and-log fence — built not of split rails nor slender poles but big logs — stood in the high pastures nearest the forest, but much had been replaced with five-strand barbwire.
Cath Barton, Bristol I never would have dreamt that my favourite book of the year, Annie Proulx's That Old Ace on the Hole, would have had me enthralled by detailed descriptions of farming practices and a barbwire festival in the Texan panhandle.
Plastic blue partition walls, a barbwire fence and the derelict surroundings remind me of the 2009 sci-fi film District 9. When Blair calls "action", a violent altercation takes place.
By Morris Bishop and E. B. White The New Yorker, March 27 , 1937P. 13 Sweet Memory of the Winter: A lady skier prying her way through a barbwire fence, using the Arlberg sprawl.
The New Yorker, March 27 , 1937P. 13 Sweet Memory of the Winter: A lady skier prying her way through a barbwire fence, using the Arlberg sprawl.
One strapless mini dress featured a cross body strap of barbwire-like material, which also wrapped around the dress to sit under the bust.
Warned that the gilded cage of success could lead him to "forget that there's people in the world still enslaved," he boasts of taking the opposite route: rather than succumb to the temptations of money and fame, he raps, "I barbwired my wrist, and let it fill the page".
Mr. Andrews, the editor in chief of Saveur magazine, performed with DEAN FEARING, the chef at the Mansion on Turtle Creek in Dallas, and ROBERT DELGRANDE of Café Annie in Houston and their band, the Barbwires.
