barnlike
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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The house had a wagon-wheel chandelier and barnlike rafters — and a high ceiling that Rogers had raised while his wife was traveling abroad so he could practice roping indoors.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2025
In one barnlike building, a second floor has been renovated into an airy office space with polished wooden floors and large computer monitors.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2024
The barnlike wooden building is drafty and unheated, its dark wood and skeleton of support beams and framing unfinished and exposed.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2023
The auction house is a local institution in a huge barnlike building where everything from antiques to bear traps can be available.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 28, 2021
I pull up to the structure where the ball apparently lives—in a kind of barnlike shed—and knock on the door, my heart beating fast.
From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
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