In printmaking, chemical action of acid etching or ‘eating’ into a metal plate.
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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 - the barbed - wire fence .
5 Above the barriers runs barbed metal to prevent people from climbing over.
1 He caught its pungent aroma in the damp air of the court.
2 The pungent reek of incense from a street-shrine was in the smells.
3 This information was repeated down the ranks, along with other pungent observations.
4 The pungent odour of ozone from the electric discharge filled the room.
5 The pungent odor of ozone from the electric discharge filled the room.
1 The spaniel flew at the black dog; nipping at the plodding forepaws.
2 That's the Emperor's strategy-tokeep his foes busy nipping at one another.
3 All day the sun scorched her, but the night was nipping cold.
4 She bent and cracked from stem to stern among the nipping masses.
5 The worries that were nipping at his heels earlier returned with reinforcements.
1 Hard, mordacious , no man's friend... that was the David Drennen who at Père Marquette's fête sought any quarrel to which he might lay his hands.
Causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold.
1 But recent government efforts to cool the market appear to be biting .
2 Kachiun held himself still, biting back the questions he wanted to ask.
3 Did you believe some biting was necessary to maintain the LD population?
4 Most of the young men simply couldn't stand the biting and stinging.
5 Allan told Morning Report it was quite literally a nail biting evening.
6 Friday was the morning after and, following the euphoria, reality was biting .
7 The next three days will be a long, nail - biting time for everyone.
8 He sat on the window sill in the biting cold and listened.
9 For optimal pleasure, leave for another 10 minutes before biting into one.
10 Could the government be biting one of the hands that feed them?
11 Two dogs sprawled in the middle of the road, scuffling and biting .
12 And nevertheless the biting of the cockatrice is death to the weasel.
13 She was frowning in considerable perplexity, and biting her firm red lips.
14 There was something biting and forbidding in the character of Kate Swift.
15 Standing uncovered in the biting air, he delivered the following short address:-
16 The heat was great; I had never remembered a more biting sun.
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