Example Sentences

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It’s an odd adjective under the circumstances: Animals don’t care about bars—they care about boundaries, and even barless enclosures limit their range.

From Slate • Jun. 27, 2016

While it now seems this decades-old decision doomed Harambe, at the time of construction, the barless design was likely praised as a more “humane” way to house captive animals.

From Slate • Jun. 27, 2016

According to a 2015 video released by the Cincinnati Zoo, Harambe’s home was “the world’s first barless outdoor gorilla exhibit” when it opened in 1978.

From Slate • Jun. 27, 2016

Many have open gates, unlocked doors, barless windows that lift easily.

From Time Magazine Archive

Such an ardour possessed the men for the fight that in some it reached the pitch of fear lest they should arrive too late upon the battlefield and receive only a barless medal.

From The Story of the "9th King's" in France by Roberts, Enos Herbert Glynne