Prove your power against the fate barring your way.
What he and his advisers believed was that Sergeant Woodrow and his comrades were, for some reason, trying to make their way back to Almy and had found Apaches barring the way.
He was a "bang-up" cook, barring a heavy hand at first with chile and onions.
Dully he watched it, and for him it was the flaming sword barring the gates of Eden.
There's no one much to help me now, barring the hired man.
If you read the papers with regard to this question, you will find that, barring whatever chance there may be of our again soon receiving a supply of cotton from America, the hopes of the whole country are directed to India.
In the opening stood a soldier barring the way with his gun, and an officer came to the carriage and examined all our papers before the sentinel shouldered his musket and let us pass.
The lord bishop occupies almost the apex of the ecclesiastical power, barring only the Pope and his cardinals; and all the lay world ought to honor the clergy.
There is no seigneur in Quelqueparte so rich as Bishop Nivelon, barring only the duke himself--and the duke would justly hesitate, quite apart from feelings of piety, to force a quarrel with so great a spiritual lord.
The house I live in, and everything in it, barring my clothes, my wine, and my cigars, belong to my daughter under a settlement fifteen years old.
Barring the discomfort of his knee, it was not unpleasant--the cares of life did not loom large in night watches for this young man.
Barring his comparatively recent experience in the county jail, which after all was far from typical, Cowperwood had never been in a prison in his life.
Stocks are bound to recover, as you know, and, barring my losses at this time, I will be all right.
Barring his intense desire for certain things--success and vindication, principally--he found that he could live in his narrow cell and be fairly comfortable.
Since his birth in 1837 he had seen the nation reach that physical growth--barring Alaska--which it now possesses.
If there was, that would be sufficient reason for all of us hating him--barring you, Charlie, who are out of the hunt now.
What's the matter with this country, anyway--barring mining?
And barring bull luck, like Johnny's, I don't see much show of beating that, unless a man settled down to stay here.
Even now they might have escaped, but that in the porch, barring retreat, appeared the crafty wheelwright, who had been watching all their proceedings.
By keeping out of bounds, or at all events out of the house and quadrangle, all day, and carefully barring themselves in at night, East and Tom managed to hold on without feeling very miserable; but it was as much as they could do.
We saw some as handsome women and girls as could be found in America, barring their dark complexions.
The letter makes Ardeshir say "None but the subject kings who do not belong to our House can assume the title of king barring the wardens of the marches of the territory of the Allans and the districts in the west and of Khwarzm.
Throughout the Persian history he never names an authority, barring Hisham, whom he quotes here and there and who was an acknowledged authority in another province of tradition.
In the case of a defeat one single man turning his face to the enemy and barring the way of the enemy's forces, will sometimes abate the pride and haughtiness of the victors by the unexpectedness of his heroic valour.
The Lord of the Celestials alone held still the field, barring with his chariot the host of his enemies.
These doors also illustrate the customary manner of barring the door during the absence of the occupant of the house.
Moreover, barring inexperience and youth, Geordie was better fitted to go and do than was his father, the doctor.
The wagon road twisted over the bleak "divide" the train had just rounded, and, barring a team or two jogging slowly into town, was bare of traffic.
Then we take them--barring certain mistakes in observation,--to be indubitable perceptions in which misunderstanding is impossible.
A knowledge of human nature is acquired only (barring of course a certain talent thereto) by persevering observation, comparison, summarization, and further comparison.
Prince Galitzin, at the head of a Russian force very inferior to the Ottoman invaders, succeeded in barring their passage; the Turks fell back, invariably beaten by the Russian generals.
But another confronted him, barring his way, a stockily built personage with a wide, humorous face, and yet with authority in all its contour and lines.
Barring his wealth, which was a gift to him, and his newspaper, which was a plaything, what qualified this dilettante to sit in the seats of the mighty?
And everything about him, barring only the shoes and the shirt, which plainly belonged to his everyday apparel, seemed fit to fall apart with age and with shabbiness.
Barring the cut and colour of his costume he might have passed, with his smooth, rosy cheek and his round, blue Irish orb, for a Christian Brother.
As to the time required for this journey, Leal said that, barring unforeseen obstacles, fifty days might suffice for us to reach Ciudad Bolivar.
Now and then we would come to a halt, owing to a huge boulder of rock or large trunk of a tree barring the passage absolutely.
You can't be spared now," said Anton, barring the way.
Away with you, rude little things," cried Lenore; "how can you think of barringour way?
The two gentlemen went on thus for nearly half an hour without exchanging a syllable; but, just as they turned a corner in the path, they saw a horseman about thirty paces in front of them, barring the road, and apparently waiting for them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "barring" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
