[
US
/ˈbɑɹd/
]
[ UK /bˈɑːd/ ]
[ UK /bˈɑːd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- marked with stripes or bands
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preventing entry or exit or a course of action
a barricaded street
barred doors
the blockaded harbor
How To Use barred In A Sentence
- All who disagreed openly were barred from the radical teach-in at the public school.
- Barred from hearing the Sanskrit Veda and from access to the religion of the twice-born, they discovered their own spiritual path, an intimate and direct relationship with their Lord.
- It followed as one consequence of these letters from Florence that Nora was debarred from the Italian scheme as a mode of passing her time till some house should be open for her reception. He Knew He Was Right
- This immediately disbarred him from continuing on his methadone programme.
- Belle does some kind of abstruse Boswellising; after the first meal, having gauged the kind of jests that would pay here, I observed, ‘Boswell is Barred during this cruise.’ Vailima Letters
- And airlines would have to hand over detailed passenger info or risk seeing jets barred from landing. The Sun
- In some states, a fifth of the attorneys who have represented defendants in capital cases have subsequently been suspended, disbarred or arrested.
- In 1984 Congress undercut the exclusionary rule which barred evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment.
- He froze to death one night on the streets of Keijo; with every door barred against him. Chapter 15
- For ten days they were left alone in that hellhole, with the door barred against their screams. HERE BE DRAGONS