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Meanings of burred in English
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Examples for "barbed"
Examples for "barbed"
1
I vote we try to get round outside Mr. Brown's barbed wire.
2
After 16 months of barbed constitutional squabbles, patience is in short supply.
3
There was in the air an imminence of incident, acid and barbed.
4
And the name of this new and dreaded bramble is-thebarbed-wirefence.
5
Above the barriers runs barbed metal to prevent people from climbing over.
1
However, given the prickly undercurrent, today may not be the best day!
2
Government and business relations between Singapore and Indonesia have historically been prickly.
3
For a similar reason, the actual prickly pears themselves are attractively coloured.
4
Any mention of her former colleagues is bound to make her prickly.
5
My body is mostly numb, but I'm beginning to feel prickly sensations.
1
I mean, and this leads to a really thorny ethical question, right?
2
But there's that thorny question: What constitutes doing business in a state?
3
But the really thorny problem is the nature of the credit crunch.
4
Either way, India's problem is mostly homegrown -and it looks thorny.
5
The vibe knob is a clever solution to a thorny social problem.
1
In fact, some Broadway insiders bristled at the hypocrisy of the situation.
2
At the sound the hair bristled upon the back of the listener.
3
Gingrich bristled when CNN debate moderator John King asked about the allegations.
4
The Prime Minister bristled; he seemed now to be on the track.
5
The Republican president has long bristled at that finding, which Russia denies.
1
The bristly ridge of its chine showed black against the red west.
2
His long arms almost strangled me; his bristly mustache scratched my cheek.
3
They were still comically stiff-legged and bristly as they aloofly sniffed noses.
4
His pocked cheeks and bristly dome would enhance his gaunt, sinister mien.
5
Lou's thin face reddened up to the roots of his bristly hair.
1
The next two cases include the remaining specimens of the spiny-finned fish.
2
By the cliff edge the spiny cactus threw out strange withered arms.
3
They include species like the small blue butterfly and the spiny dogfish.
4
DavRian kicked a small, leafy plant that grew among the spiny gorse.
5
After all, the spiny foliage discourages any grazing, or so I thought.
1
Here's your 'burry,' pointing to a bureau with a bookcase on the top.
2
Trhree swell families on the Avenue guv me all this to burry the brat.
3
Suzy Spoon, a vegetarian butcher based, in Sydney spoke to Maya burry about her work.
4
He wouldn't let them burry her where most was hurried that died in the hospital.
5
His naked pink tail lashed in agitation, though his furry face and burry voice carried no emotion.
1
You are the eglantine in human form, and often quite as briery.
2
I took my neighbor to see this briery wilderness, and asked his advice.
3
They have a most unkind preference for briery bushes, that discourage human intimacy.
4
It is even more vigorous than the preceding, but not so briery or branching.
5
Gardening, berry-picking, and she helped with the gooseberries, the briery vines she did not like.
1
Facing that briary jungle on the ground level was a little daunting.
2
On mountain heights, in briary woods, I find
Usage of burred in English
1
Then his stomach turned cold and his tongue grew thick and burred.
2
BOING went the clock, a second time, and again everything burred.
3
The bolt popped back suddenly, scraping her knuckles on burred iron.
4
Somewhere a cicada burred loudly and then unwound into silence.
5
It burred through the room and through their heads.
6
Against my chest, my discarded induction mike burred.
7
With his rifle still strapped across his back, he threw himself aside as its weapon burred again.
8
The phone burred twice, then Deke answered.
9
About ten thousand pounds of wool were sheared, burred, packed, marked, and perhaps shipped, in a day.
10
The knife burred back into life.
11
Use a small, light hammer, and gently tap round the edge of the bolt until it is burred over.
12
Shallow rectangular pockets of perforated nickel-steel were fitted in the holes and then burred over the framework by high pressures.
13
The knife burred into life in my hand, vibrations backing up unpleasantly as far as the wound in my side.
14
Father, I want permission to cut and carry a generous chestnut branch, burred, and full fruited, to the young woman.
15
Above all, he saw Naomi going before him in her shame, and at that sight his heart bled and his spirit burred.
16
How he 'burred' and buzzed and droned!-tillby-and-by ,crawlingup the back of my head, he found an open space and sailed away.
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