Antonyms for barbed wirebarbed wire

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1. barbed wirenoun

   Synonyms:
   barbwire

2. barbed wirenoun

   Twisted strands of steel wire, often coated with zinc, having barbs evenly spaced along them; used to construct agricultural and military fences.

   Synonyms:
   barbwire

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1. barbed wire, barbwirenoun

   strong wire with barbs at regular intervals used to prevent passage

   Synonyms:
   barbwire

How to use barbed wire in a sentence?

1. Hannah Pik-Goslar:

   I was shivering in darkness when I suddenly heard a voice; 'Lies, Lies where are you?' It was Anne, and I ran in the direction of the voice, and then I saw her beyond the barbed wire. She was in rags. I saw her emaciated, sunken face in the darkness. Her eyes were very large. We cried and cried, for now there was only the barbed wire between us, nothing more. And no longer any difference in our fates.

2. Donald Trump:

   You saw that barbed wire going up. That barbed wire -- yes sir, we have barbed wire going up. Because you know what ? We're not letting these people invade our country.

3. Ronald Reagan:

   Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

4. Agnieszka Sieradzka:

   Some would be surprised that art existed in a place like that, in a place with crematories, but art was especially needed here behind the barbed wire, because the art could save a part of their human dignity, the art was a hope for a better future. The art was escape from the brutal reality of the camp to another, better world.

5. Zeid Raad al-Hussein:

   The notion of ghost ships drifting on autopilot toward the coasts of Europe in the hopes that coast guards will rescue the people on board and the hideous sight of men and women tearing their flesh on barbed-wire fences in a desperate, and sometimes lethal, attempt to clamber into Europe and find a better, more peaceful life: Such scenes are simply intolerable.

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