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Meanings of barbed wire in inglés

ruso
колючая проволока
portugués
barreira de arame farpado
español
cerco de puas
catalán
filferro d'arç
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Type of steel fencing wire constructed with sharp edges or points arranged at intervals along the strand(s)

        cerco de puas
        portugués
        arame farpado
        catalán
        filferro espinós

        Strong wire with barbs at regular intervals used to prevent passage.

              arame farpado
              Usage of barbed wire in inglés
              1
              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
              6
              Before the trenches are barbed wire entanglements and deep jagged shell craters.
              The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me
              7
              They reached the barbed wire and were suddenly challenged by our sentry.
              "Over the Top," by an American Soldier Who Went / Together with ...
              8
              The faded sign on the fence topped with barbed wire says REZENDE.
              Night of knives
              9
              Elnora indicated to Philip the trail with remnants of sagging barbed wire.
              A Girl of the Limberlost
              10
              Just as we reached the centre we encountered a barbed wire entanglement.
              Into the Jaws of Death
              11
              The last are divided off from one another by barbed wire fences.
              Turkish Prisoners in Egypt / A Report by the Delegates of the In...
              12
              The military reservation was fenced off from our quarters by barbed wire.
              Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons: Wesel, Sennelager, Klinge...
              13
              The bloodlines in South Texas were as twisted as the barbed wire.
              Rebel island
              14
              I tugged on a length of barbed wire buried in the sand.
              Wastelands
              15
              At night, soldiers beside armoured vehicles man checkpoints with barbed wire barricades.
              Reuters
              16
              At night, soldiers beside armored vehicles man checkpoints with barbed wire barricades.
              Reuters
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