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Example sentences for "barn"

Lexicographically close words:
barleys; barm; barmaid; barmaids; barman; barnacle; barnacled; barnacles; barnea; barnlike
  1. Had the "slight exposure which brought on a fatal sickness," been the result of prowling in his neighbor's barn instead of his boudoir his name would be anathema forevermore.

  2. All that I now see of the paper is the clippings sent me by disgusted Houstonians, and I take those out behind the barn to read-- then bury them lest they poison the hogs.

  3. I had set up a shop in his barn and started work for myself and then he employed me making models, helicopter models for himself.

  4. The next column says the number of passengers and that first trip was four passengers, time out six o'clock, I got that trip out of the barn and it is marked "call.

  5. Henderson noticed that her father, after the election of Cleveland, spent several days in the barn working steadily polishing up some iron, but she never inquired what he was doing or what he wanted to accomplish.

  6. In this barn he stacked his grain and threshed it by walking the horses over it, the wheat dropping through the floor to a floor below where it was cleaned.

  7. Lewis, near where now stands the stone barn just south of the boulevard two miles west of Marion.

  8. Daniels, the son of Jeremiah Daniels, came to Bertram township in the spring of 1844, his father entering land on what is known as Indian creek, erecting a log house and barn thereon.

  9. Now Puss in the corner she heard She heard what the farmer had said, She ran to the barn and she mewed in alarm; "The farmer will sleep in his bed, in his bed!

  10. ONCE THE BARN WAS FULL OF HAY Once the barn was full of hay, Now 'tis there no more.

  11. From the big red barn came the lowing of the restless cattle.

  12. Up to the barn door dashed the old farm horses.

  13. In front of both house and barn stretched the bright green meadows where day after day fed the twenty-six cows.

  14. Down under the barn in the dirt Pig heard what the Pussy cat mewed.

  15. They've been waiting in the barn for over an hour now.

  16. ONCE THE BARN WAS FULL OF HAY This story made a special appeal to the school children because the school building was originally a stable in MacDougal Alley.

  17. Once the barn was full of hay: Now 'tis there no more.

  18. It was attached to a pipe which ran the whole length of the great barn above the cows' stalls.

  19. But after that Wonderful-calf-that-never-was was kept in the barn for a long time.

  20. So the little black and white hen, she ran into the barn and up on the side of the wall she saw a little box.

  21. Grandma watched with interest the crew which had been sent out to get the injured car back again on the track and take it to the car barn before most people were stirring.

  22. Ezra was feeling anything but cheerful when he saw his father come out of the barn with a smile on his face.

  23. MORAG enters other room or barn which opens on right.

  24. POLLY (pointing with the hoe toward the left of the woodpile) That's farthest over next the barn door.

  25. John Simmons had his room in the barn and was one of my first porters.

  26. At night, the motor power and the couple of cars were housed in a barn at either Main or Washington Street.

  27. Newmark & Company's truck and slept in a barn in my back yard on Main Street, was so reliable a man that we made him overseer of the ranch.

  28. This had scarcely been finished when the corn was ready for the sickle and gathered; in a barn had been raised close to the sheep-fold as well as the lodge for Malachi, Martin, and his wife.

  29. She said, "Go to the barn and take as much as thou wouldst.

  30. Then the bunch of herbs was taken down; part of it was put with the corn in the barn to keep rats and mice from the grain, and part was kept as a remedy for diseases of all sorts.

  31. Near Peronne, in the French department of Somme, people used to go out fasting before sunrise on St. John's Day to cull the plant; put among the wheat in the barn it protected the corn against mice.

  32. His orderly summoned soldiers from the barn and together they drove the cows into the cow-sheds.

  33. Before sunset, the Villa Beau-séjour was clear of soldiers, except the few that had gone to the barn and the outhouses.

  34. And now she came running around a corner of the barn and peered through the fence at Grunty.

  35. Everybody spoke about the tall corn that we nailed to the barn last fall.

  36. Now and then he peeped out to watch the procession of cows moving slowly towards the barn to be milked.

  37. Not far from the barn Grunty left the lane and hurried toward the little yard outside the piggery, where he had run away from his mother and his brothers and his sisters.

  38. He and his fellow-servant occupied an apartment in the barn as a lodging-room.

  39. No expedient now remained but to seek the barn and find a covering and a bed of straw.

  40. The fighting of the dogs had for the first few moments sounded farther and farther away, retreating through the barn and thence into the lot; and by and by the shepherd ran around and stood before David, awaiting orders.

  41. The barn had become a battle-field of hunger and life.

  42. David felt much more at home in the barn than at the house.

  43. Before the barn door, where the snow had been tramped down by the stock and seeds of grain lay scattered, he flushed a flock of little birds, nearly all strangers to each other.

  44. You shall come into the barn this night," he vowed within himself.

  45. On the northern side of the barn the weather-boarding was quite gone in places, and the wind blew freely in.

  46. As he threw open the barn doors, a few more, shyer still, darted swiftly into hiding.

  47. Every soul of these inside or outside the barn that evening had been waiting for David.

  48. There was the dust of field and barn on the edges of the thick hair about the ears; dust around the eyes and the nostrils.

  49. He had chosen this particular part of the barn because it was dryest in roof and floor.

  50. The cows by and by filed slowly around from behind the barn and entered the doorless milking stalls.

  51. And now the barn was in an uproar; and the dog, chained at his kennel behind the house, was howling, roaring to get loose.

  52. East Lynne, in this out-at-elbows company, and in this old barn of a house!

  53. Next mornin', I was up turrible early and makin' fer a barn clost to the park.

  54. Fin'lly he comes to a ranch where they was a new barn goin' up.

  55. Next day, I borraed a' outfit and waited nigh her barn till she come in sight.

  56. Our barn owl belongs to the tropical and warm temperate genus Strix, which is scattered widely over the greater part of the earth in the tropical and subtropical parts of both hemispheres, and scatteringly into the temperate zones.

  57. The barn owl is the most nocturnal of all our owls, although he can see perfectly in the brightest day.

  58. But two specimens have been brought to the Oberlin College Museum in twenty years, one of which was found dead in a barn a mile east of Oberlin in December of 1898.

  59. Eudol, when they were out of sight, went out to the barn and found Igraine comfortably couched there on a mass of hay.

  60. There was a barn standing on the other side of a little meadow near the house, and the building was screened by a fringe of pines and a thorn hedge.

  61. One of the fellows catching sight of the barn across the meadows, half-hidden by pines, they made a circle round it, closed in, and forced the door.

  62. Then the barn full of threshers set out to run after him.

  63. And soon the gingerbread boy came to a barn full of threshers.

  64. In the barn a little mousie Ran to and fro, For she heard the little Kitty, Long time ago.

  65. He'll sit in the barn and keep himself warm, And hide his head under his wing, poor thing.

  66. Thus Lanty, with her brain afire, her eyes and ears straining into the darkness, and the vague outline of the barn beyond.

  67. HE must have got away by this time, or have been discovered; she believed they would not open the barn door until the return of the posse.

  68. Bicker had forced his way out of the guardhouse, and at the risk of breaking his neck had climbed to the roof of the barn and leaped over the stockade into the ditch outside.

  69. Drossdell said this was under the barn flooring, and his words proved true.

  70. The sheep had been driven into the upper barn floor: the chickens were in the corn-bin; and old John and the cows had been transferred from the stable, that stood low, to the weighing floor of the mill.

  71. And the boys are about as much dependence as a flock of barn swallows!

  72. If you can git together somethin' to feed 'em on, mother, they say they'd as soon sleep on the straw in the barn as anywheres else.

  73. It is likely my skeleton barn still stands where I set it up to hold my produce.

  74. We might make a raft of those barn timbers.

  75. Then your house and your barn were left to ruin?

  76. At Warm Springs Agency an Indian, who had been with Crook, invited me to visit the department barn with him.

  77. A stout-built man looks out from a barn to ascertain the meaning, while a middle-aged woman comes to the kitchen door.

  78. Presently they came to Joshua's dairy farm, and Joshua himself was standing in the doorway of one of his immaculate barn Honora put her hand on Susan's arm.


  79. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "barn" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    mews; stable; stall