Sentence examples for barker from inspiring English sources
noun
Someone or something who barks.
- My neighbor's dog is a constant barker that keeps me awake at night.
He comports himself more like a carnival barker than a candidate, loudly promising jobs in a state where unemployment jumped from 5% to 6.4% between December and February.
The true begetter of modern youth culture lived just long enough to enter a kind of premature senility, over-indulged, over-managed and over-medicated.The book opens with Presley's pampered military days and his prompt return to stardom, masterminded by "Colonel" Tom Parker, a former carnival barker.
With great foresight, in the late 1970s Mr Barker began to tape-record the old inhabitants, whose stories now fill the most interesting pages of his book.Mr Barker has also taped an ageing hippy, a graphics designer, a tattoo lady, puppeteers and others, for he knows how much the place owes to them.
Judd said the players would unite behind interim coach Barker and attempt to fight their way up the AFL ladder.
I've heard of magnetism and God as causes for climate change, but US stand-up Arj Barker has his own theory.
The left-armer Keith Barker completed a five-wicket haul in the first innings and then passed the baton to the international trio Chris Woakes, Rankin and Jeetan Patel, their leading wicket-taker who wrapped things up with wickets in consecutive overs, in the second.
It is the most extreme form of wishful thinking to believe there was likely to be a happy ending to his ambitions.Peter Barker Snettisham, NorfolkSIR – I wonder whether other readers of The Economist feel the same as I do when it comes to the war in Iraq.
Carlton have installed Malthouse's assistant John Barker in the caretaker's job, but he can't be doing cartwheels at the prospect of picking up the pieces here.
The Yips by Nicola Barker She smells of almonds, like a plump Bakewell pudding; and he is the spoon, the whipped cream, the helpless dollop of warm custard.
Much the same was proposed by the commission set up by the King's Fund and chaired by Kate Barker.
It tells the story of lovable rogue Fletch (Ronnie Barker) – "an habitual criminal who accepts arrest as an occupational hazard" – and his attempts to serve his five-year sentence, keep his nose clean ish) and outwit the system at HMP Slade.
