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
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 barnlike environs of the Lunt-Fontanne prove to be one of Broadway’s less accommodating spaces for savoring Sondheim’s intricate lyrics and Jonathan Tunick’s timeless orchestrations.
From Washington Post • Mar. 26, 2023
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
There’s a building that looks like a meeting hall, another with a doctor’s snakes carved into the front, and two barnlike buildings that look like storage.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
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