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Example sentences for "barriers"

Lexicographically close words:
barricading; barricadoed; barrick; barricks; barrier; barrin; barring; barrio; barrister; barristers
  1. Nor is Turnus slack to follow; he overleaps the barriers and springs across the high gangways.

  2. With his father's might Pyrrhus presses on; nor guards nor barriers can hold out.

  3. Alpine barriers and the fortress of the Dweller Alone, son-in-law facing him with the embattled East.

  4. Dorothea refrained from saying what was in her mind--how well she knew that there might be invisible barriers to speech between husband and wife.

  5. It seems to me to be a phase of the general breaking down of the barriers between the nations, the classes, and the sexes.

  6. But this breaking down of barriers is something that most of our novelists have been ignoring.

  7. Having himself severed the barriers of sorrow, now he is able to save his followers, and to provide the draught of immortality for all who are parched with thirst!

  8. So the barriers which have separated China from the rest of the world must, like the medieval wall of Tien-tsin, be cast down and over them a highway for all men be made.

  9. Often and often have I looked into the faces of a crowd of non-Christian Chinese and felt keenly how many barriers lay between their minds and mine.

  10. Not only were the barriers in the way of a prosperous, free development of Jewry not removed, but fresh hindrances without number were multiplied.

  11. Isolation and clannishness were inevitable in view of the character of the Christian environment and the almost insuperable barriers raised between the classes of Polish society.

  12. Much of the good of society is walled out from the school by barriers that arise in politics, City ways, all the bad life of the streets, the trivial interests of the day, affect the school too much.

  13. She had gradually built up a wall of commonplace between herself and her illusions, but at the first summons of the past filial passion swept away the frail barriers of expediency.

  14. One felt that all the poor lady's barriers were falling save that of her impregnable manner.

  15. I hurl away all barriers and remember only the one dream of my life--my deathless, unwavering love for you.

  16. Human beliefs, like all other natural growths,= 15 =elude the barriers of system.

  17. He was in the midst of hills and a fertile country teeming with abundance, but he did not trust to the strong barriers of nature for his protection.

  18. Ever since ordination, Hamlin had realised the almost insuperable barriers interposed by tradition, by training, by a thousand and one conditions and consequences, between the privileged and unprivileged classes.

  19. On the 1st of January, "it is rumored that the barriers are to be closed at night, and that domiciliary visits are going to begin again.

  20. It is not surprising that he is tempted to kick against social barriers within which, willing or not, he is enrolled, and which predestine him to subordination.

  21. Should one leave the city, sentinels of their species are posted at the barriers and on the section committees in continuous session.

  22. Here the worm-eaten barriers have cracked all at once, their easy-going, timid, incapable guardians having allowed things to take their course.

  23. Should he consider the millions of individuals who are trying to mount the social ladder, each striving to get ahead of the other, it may dawn upon him that the worst of calamities would be a lack of barriers and of guardians.

  24. He had received his right of way beyond the barriers of her disregard; he had become an authorized nuisance; civility from herself had taken the instant shape of a debt, due her present escort.

  25. At the sound they were placed back on the exact footing of their last meeting, before thinking and conjecturing about each other in absence had built up between them barriers of illusion.

  26. The thing to be done was to put his arms around her like a man, and lay his head on her shoulder like a child, and treat as not existing the barriers which she described as dividing them.

  27. It has been truly said that genius ignores all social barriers and springs forth wherever heaven has dropped the seed.

  28. Hope's a magical compound To increase our strength, we've found, It can charm our bars and barriers all away.

  29. He tripped every day on the barriers of ancient law, and often his generosity was taken for defiance.

  30. They were gathered from behind the deadly barriers and now lie in eternal silence beyond the reach of all earthly summonses and the jurisdiction of our tribunals.

  31. Men were beating against the steel and glass barriers and women crowded with the desperation of death stamped upon their faces.

  32. His genius and his fortune were not to be bounded by the barriers which experience had assigned to human powers.

  33. And now this continent from the Gulf of Mexico to where civilized life is stayed by barriers of frost, was become their dwelling-place and their heritage.

  34. She loved him with a passion which broke down all barriers of modesty and prudence, reckless of the fact that he had a wife, as she had a husband.

  35. She is thy slave, yet holds thee captive; at her touch honour withers, locks open, and barriers fall.

  36. Or, perchance, it is a torrent to wash in a flood of ruin across the fields of Hope, bursting in the barriers of design, and bringing to tumbled nothingness the tenement of man's purity and the temples of his faith.

  37. I cannot venture--perhaps it is so much the better that I cannot--to give any idea of the conversation which at once broke out, as if the barriers that restrained it had at length given way.

  38. Do not these unavoidable barriers to public service, or religious work, stand on a special footing?

  39. But no love is altogether perfect, and for most men and women love is no more than a partial and temporary lowering of the barriers that keep them apart.

  40. They do, because they tend to break down barriers and set up a peculiar emotional partnership.

  41. We ought to do what we can to abolish these absurd barriers and petty falsehoods, but we ought not to commit a social suicide against them.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "barriers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.