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Meanings of barrack in English
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Examples for "scoff"
Examples for "scoff"
1
He said it with a level stare that dared me to scoff.
2
It's easy to scoff at these claims as outlandish and distinctly American.
3
But when he tries to persuade them to come home, they scoff.
4
Jacobson knows many people, including some of her relatives, scoff at QAnon.
5
The wild sublimity of Aeschylus became the scoff of every young Phidippides.
1
The crowds felt free to cheer, jeer, and offer questions and comments.
2
No offence is intended; the men jeer out of mere harmless devilment.
3
The shrill jeer of a newsboy broke in upon his pathetic speech.
4
The omnipresent small boys and soldiers jeer, and some tear the banners.
5
They began to jeer and insult him more than the other boys.
1
He was made to flout it and go his own sheep-headed way.
2
We flout the businessman, but without him there would be no poets.
3
I will make thee yet a lady, whom none shall dare flout.
4
Why do you flout one who longs to show you his devotion?
5
Russia and China flout political borders, just look at Crimea and Hong Kong.
1
Here in his native village there were none to gibe and sneer.
2
At the gibe business the German is, perhaps, better than the Briton.
3
I ignored the gibe, but felt a twinge at the real possibility.
4
The king's gibe stung, and he resolved not to wait for Dragonstone.
5
I do not gibe back at a woman who presently will die.
Usage of barrack in English
1
In the tall and barrack-like houses candles gleamed in honor of Masaniello.
2
In the evening, the change from barrack-room to veldt was most delightful.
3
The foundation of another barrack for officers was begun in this month.
4
I detest having it in that great barrack of a dining-room downstairs.
5
It was half-past three when the deputies were locked into the barrack-yard.
6
His expedient was very simple, and had somewhat of barrack-life about it.
7
This is an old fortress still used as a barrack in Naples.
8
There stood the old barrack, staring emptily out of its black windows.
9
A formless barrack without, the house within was a place of comfort.
10
M. d'Anquetil, in rough, barrack-room style, promised to get the postboys hanged.
11
When we were dressed, we were directed to a wooden army barrack.
12
For the next year, barrack life was very tame to poor Nolan.
13
And the barrack, with its seven capacious courts, is of prodigious extent.
14
That evening he called John Broom into the barrack-room where he slept.
15
I wonder how the old barrack in Fitzroy Square looks without me?
16
I was in a barrack with about 800 other girls, she said.
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