Sentence examples for barked from inspiring English sources
'barked' is correct and usable in written English
It is a verb that means to make the explosive sound that a dog typically makes. Example Sentence: The dog barked excitedly when its owner arrived home.
"Don't mention the war," barked Basil Fawlty, but people still did.
"Annulé, annulé!" the driver barked unhelpfully when I called.
The Liberal Democrats belatedly made an end to public sector pay restraint a "red line" for any negotiations on a renewed coalition, a move that may garner a few extra votes in their key marginals, but in most respects the cuts have been a dog that hasn't barked.
The 11-year-old Mohammed Emwazi posing for a class photo bears no resemblance to the black-clad fighter who barked demands at western governments in Isis's grisly videos.
"We appreciate that, asshole," barked Enron's chief executive, on a public conference call, to a suspected short-seller who had complained about the lack of a published balance sheet.
A series of hurried conversations takes place, nervously whispered on one side, barked on the other.
EU watchdogs that once barked warnings seem now to have given up.
This has a wall of money and expectation behind it".While AT&T may see only menace if the merger goes through unscathed, one dog that hasn't barked is GTE, which is currently pursuing through the courts, with some success, the tie-up between WorldCom and MCI.
LBJ made his minions take down orders he barked through his lavatory door.
Especially when the heavens will fall on people on the other side of the world.JOHN RAYFontenay-Trésigny, FranceSIR Chile has successfully em-barked on a peace process.
Isolated, thin-barked trees growing in northern climates and subjected to frequent thawing by day and freezing by night may develop dead bark cankers or vertical frost cracks on the south or southwest sides of the trunk.
