crush barrier

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noun

a barrier erected to separate sections of large crowds in order to prevent crushing

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Words nearby crush barrier

Crusades, crusado, cruse, crush, crush bar, crush barrier, crushed velvet, crushproof, crush-resistant, crush syndrome, crusie

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How to use crush barrier in a sentence

Why would “they” want to crush him just for attempting to buy something twenty years ago?
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I was out, maybe in the Great Barrier Reef catching black marlin.
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His high school prom was around the corner, and he had been hanging out with a boy that he had a crush on.
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Like other barrier-breakers before him, Colfer suffered his share of doubters.
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Tank Battle Jeep Guard Crush -- some editorial changes and the removal of all blood when the guards are crushed by the tank.
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He was fired at by the sepoys, of course, but horse and man escaped untouched and the low barrier was leaped without effort.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
But scorn is far more volcanic than glacial and a poor barrier between sex and judgment.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
Her feet crush creeping things: there is a busy ant or blazoned beetle, with its back broken, writhing in the dust, unseen.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford
The barrier between them lowered perceptibly again, and Tom felt a momentary return of the confidence he had lost.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
The Emperor found he had no longer any reason to fear him, and for the moment determined to crush him completely.
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