Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
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Examples for "barbed"
Examples for "barbed"
1I vote we try to get round outside Mr. Brown's barbed wire.
2After 16 months of barbed constitutional squabbles, patience is in short supply.
3There was in the air an imminence of incident, acid and barbed.
4And the name of this new and dreaded bramble is-thebarbed-wirefence.
5Above the barriers runs barbed metal to prevent people from climbing over.
1However, given the prickly undercurrent, today may not be the best day!
2Government and business relations between Singapore and Indonesia have historically been prickly.
3For a similar reason, the actual prickly pears themselves are attractively coloured.
4Any mention of her former colleagues is bound to make her prickly.
5My body is mostly numb, but I'm beginning to feel prickly sensations.
1In fact, some Broadway insiders bristled at the hypocrisy of the situation.
2At the sound the hair bristled upon the back of the listener.
3Gingrich bristled when CNN debate moderator John King asked about the allegations.
4The Prime Minister bristled; he seemed now to be on the track.
5The Republican president has long bristled at that finding, which Russia denies.
1The bristly ridge of its chine showed black against the red west.
2His long arms almost strangled me; his bristly mustache scratched my cheek.
3They were still comically stiff-legged and bristly as they aloofly sniffed noses.
4His pocked cheeks and bristly dome would enhance his gaunt, sinister mien.
5Lou's thin face reddened up to the roots of his bristly hair.
1The next two cases include the remaining specimens of the spiny-finned fish.
2By the cliff edge the spiny cactus threw out strange withered arms.
3They include species like the small blue butterfly and the spiny dogfish.
4DavRian kicked a small, leafy plant that grew among the spiny gorse.
5After all, the spiny foliage discourages any grazing, or so I thought.
1Here's your 'burry,' pointing to a bureau with a bookcase on the top.
2Trhree swell families on the Avenue guv me all this to burry the brat.
3Suzy Spoon, a vegetarian butcher based, in Sydney spoke to Maya burry about her work.
4He wouldn't let them burry her where most was hurried that died in the hospital.
5His naked pink tail lashed in agitation, though his furry face and burry voice carried no emotion.
1You are the eglantine in human form, and often quite as briery.
2I took my neighbor to see this briery wilderness, and asked his advice.
3They have a most unkind preference for briery bushes, that discourage human intimacy.
4It is even more vigorous than the preceding, but not so briery or branching.
5Gardening, berry-picking, and she helped with the gooseberries, the briery vines she did not like.
1Then his stomach turned cold and his tongue grew thick and burred.
2BOING went the clock, a second time, and again everything burred.
3The bolt popped back suddenly, scraping her knuckles on burred iron.
4Somewhere a cicada burred loudly and then unwound into silence.
5It burred through the room and through their heads.
1Facing that briary jungle on the ground level was a little daunting.
2On mountain heights, in briary woods, I find
1I mean, and this leads to a really thorny ethical question, right?
2But there's that thorny question: What constitutes doing business in a state?
3But the really thorny problem is the nature of the credit crunch.
4Either way, India's problem is mostly homegrown -and it looks thorny.
5The vibe knob is a clever solution to a thorny social problem.
6Good thing Stephenson tackles that thorny task in the video at right.
7In practical terms though, the issue of independence is a thorny one.
8Prof Kiberd's assumption avoids dealing with the thorny question of defining marriage.
9In fact, the drier the region, the more thorny are its plants.
10Georgia will present the White House with a thorny foreign policy problem.
11There's also the thorny subject of constitutional referendums and the McKenna judgment.
12Beyond the technical questions are increasingly thorny social, political and economic issues.
13The thorny journalistic issue of privacy is hovering over our heads today.
14Director Deborah LaVine's cast does a splendid job with this thorny material.
15Stalling will make it harder to tackle important and thorny policy matters.
16He listened while the thorny matter of Harrison's payment was further debated.
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