Example Sentences

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Trees barbered to resemble incense pots and traditional Yemeni daggers.

From Washington Post • Nov. 7, 2021

It’s a big American story that rolls across barbered lawns and then leaves you stranded in some all-night Sam’s Club of the soul.

From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2018

For now at least this England team can get on with presenting itself to the world, laid out in its splendid new-build sarcophagus, shaved and barbered, newly suited, eyes glazed with entropic reverie.

From The Guardian • Oct. 12, 2012

Coaches who have barbered the rulebook like Edward Scissorhands look upon Calipari with a weird mixture of awe and disdain.

From Slate • Mar. 16, 2010

He could make out the shapes of pilots sitting around the bar, large shoulders and barbered heads silhouetted in the pale light that spilled into the bar from the dining room.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy