barbed wire
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- : a wire or strand of wires having small pieces of sharply pointed wire twisted around it at short intervals, used chiefly for fencing in livestock, keeping out trespassers, etc.
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A teenager, sometimes two or three, falls for an undercover detective’s offers and ends up locked behind barbed wire.
The buildings, which are connected by roads and dominated by towering barbed wire, look like sturdy blocks.
In addition, 340 miles of barbed wire fences have fragmented habitat, impacted animal crossings, and deterred the general public from exploring nearly a third of their park.
Jury selection began this week in a courthouse surrounded by concrete barricades and high fencing topped with barbed wire, amid fears of fresh civil unrest in a city still scarred by last year’s violence.
To close the mouth, you either sew the jaw together internally and through the nose, or you have this thing called the needle injector where you shoot a little barbed wire into the top gums and bottom gums and then tie the jaw together with wire.
And extortion makes a lot more sense before a story hits the news wire, not after.
As zealots poured in from Arkansas and Mississippi, a wire service reporter got punched in the ribs.
At that point, a tall, brown-haired man with wire-rimmed glasses came over to me, sat down, and peppered me with questions.
To Hitchcock, this is not a sweet wire from an old colleague but a condolence letter on the occasion of his own death.
On the day of the AFI dinner, Hitchcock receives a wire from Frank Capra, who is in Palm Springs.
That the weather being calm, he rowed round me several times, observed my windows and wire-lattices that defenced them.
They require frequent cleaning with a long wire and a bit of tow, and in some large towns there are professional pipe-cleaners.