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
At 6:42 p.m., police located the suspect in one of two barnlike structures.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 20, 2022
It is a small operation, only 13 employees working out of a large barnlike building in Sperryville, on the edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2019
The property is stark and hilly, made up of a series of small barnlike structures, one of which houses Johns’s studio.
From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2019
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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