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
For a primary suite in the barnlike addition to one house, Wright chose barn board with knots to create rustic-looking ceilings.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 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
The historic site consists of Cole’s house, his barnlike original studio, and a “New Studio,” demolished in the 1970s and rebuilt in 2015 as a small museum space.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 27, 2018
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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