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., officers found Mr. Thompson on a property that had what investigators described as two barnlike structures.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2022
That orange barnlike structure that now serves as an events space for quinceañeras?
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 16, 2022
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
How could she say she could see hardly anything in the morning gloom of the huge, barnlike room, the very air a soup of dust and lint?
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
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