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Meanings of barb wire in English

Russian
колючая проволока
Portuguese
barreira de arame farpado
Spanish
cerco de puas
Catalan
filferro d'arç
Wikidata

Type of steel fencing wire constructed with sharp edges or points arranged at intervals along the strand(s)

колючая проволока
Synonyms
Examples for "barbed wire"
Examples for "barbed wire"
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I vote we try to get round outside Mr. Brown's barbed wire.
Enchanted Glass
2
Through these gates and past the barbed wire filed the marching men.
Uncle Sam's Boys with Pershing's Troops / Or, Dick Prescott at G...
3
A childcare centre stands there now, locked behind breezeblocks and barbed wire.
The Guardian
4
She pointed toward the line of trees along a barbed wire fence.
Darkness unleashed
5
Police scuffled with protesters who tried to remove a barbed wire barricade.
Reuters
Usage of barb wire in English
1
I guess you could really call it barb wire plus.
News.com.au
2
The speaker gathered his reins, nodded, and rode away along the barb wire fence.
The Iron Furrow
3
They got a lot of barb wire an an M.P.
"Same old Bill, eh Mable!"
4
I vote we try to get round outside Mr. Brown's barbed wire.
Enchanted Glass
5
Barbed wire scraped me outa the saddle in Wyoming-barbedwire and sheep.
The Phantom Herd
6
A childcare centre stands there now, locked behind breezeblocks and barbed wire.
The Guardian
7
She pointed toward the line of trees along a barbed wire fence.
Darkness unleashed
8
Police scuffled with protesters who tried to remove a barbed wire barricade.
Reuters
9
Before the trenches are barbed wire entanglements and deep jagged shell craters.
The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me
10
Barbed wire barricades manned by soldiers mark the entrance to this ghetto.
The Guardian
11
The faded sign on the fence topped with barbed wire says REZENDE.
Night of knives
12
Elnora indicated to Philip the trail with remnants of sagging barbed wire.
A Girl of the Limberlost
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Just as we reached the centre we encountered a barbed wire entanglement.
Into the Jaws of Death
14
The last are divided off from one another by barbed wire fences.
Turkish Prisoners in Egypt / A Report by the Delegates of the In...
15
The military reservation was fenced off from our quarters by barbed wire.
Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons: Wesel, Sennelager, Klinge...
16
The bloodlines in South Texas were as twisted as the barbed wire.
Rebel island