adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
barbed wire (= wire with a lot of sharp points on it, used for making fences )
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The prison was surrounded by barbed wire.
barbed wire
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a high barbed wire fence
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
wire
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Given the ferocious imagination of his subconscious, it's hardly surprising that his celluloid output is laced with lethal barbed wire .
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On the other side of the double row of barbed wire a guard was standing still holding his rifle at the ready.
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She had driven slowly forward to the yellow demarcation line and the frightening folds of barbed wire .
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I closed my mouth and felt as though I had gargled with barbed wire .
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You may not, however, top your wall with broken glass or barbed wire without the consent of your local authority.
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He surrounded them with barbed wire .
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The wall was topped with rolls of barbed wire and jagged ends of glass stuck into the eight-foot concrete slabs.
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The courthouse itself was protected by barbed wire and ringed with police.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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She had a pair of batons with wickedly barbed ends.