How to Use barn in a Sentence

barn

noun
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  • They live in a big barn of a house.
  • Then there’s the gold muscle car in the middle of the barn.
    — Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The main home sits on six acres along with a small barn.
    — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The haunted hayride, barn and trail open Sept. 29-Oct. 29.
    — Annie Alleman, Chicago Tribune, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Tazz was found in a barn about a mile away from his home.
    — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 22 July 2024
  • The well is next to the farm’s barn and only about 100 yards from the landowners’ house.
    — Delger Erdenesanaa, New York Times, 24 May 2024
  • Eight airplane-hangar-size barns stand in a row, and eight more across the road.
    — Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2023
  • There are tack rooms, feed rooms, and office space in the barns as well.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Many of the horses at Del Mar are housed in stalls in the barns behind the backstretch.
    — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Now, there is a barn for goats, pigs and cattle at the center.
    — Connor Sanders, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Sep. 2022
  • About 20 feet below the balcony, on the floor of the large domed barn, two of the half-dozen dairy cows were butting heads.
    — Arielle Gordon Alexandra Genova, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The 2,182-acre ranch has a main house, storage building and barn.
    — oregonlive, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The two-story house where his father lives stood in the clearing, along with the barn.
    — Steven Kurutz, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Police spoke to the owner of the farm, who explained that the cows had free range of the fields and were able to come in and out of the barn.
    — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Jan. 2023
  • As the sun sets, hidden just behind a barn off to the west, the sky fills with the warmest of colors.
    — Mykal McEldowney, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Nov. 2022
  • All others are asked to park at Valley Falls Park and use the walking path to the barn.
    — Hartford Courant, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Staff also walk through the barns daily during the state fair.
    — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The refugees had been spotted by guards, and Bricha guides had shooed their charges into a barn.
    — Rebecca Frankel, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The ranch includes a three-bedroom home and a large barn and cattle pens.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 28 May 2023
  • The home was fully fenced and included a barn with two stalls.
    — Robyn A. Friedman, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2023
  • But does that simply mean an open door in a barn or acres of green pastures to roam?
    — Chris Mohr, Phd, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Police found the van last Sunday, in a field behind a barn.
    — Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Goedhardt said there is nowhere safe enough, or large enough, to move his barn of cows.
    — Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 11 May 2023
  • The virus can find its way into barns via dust particles or on the sole of a farmer’s boot.
    — Andrew Jacobs, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The 2020 Bears, in what seemed to be set up as a prove-it-or-else season, awkwardly kicked over the lantern in the barn.
    — Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2022
  • And his comic book wife Sophia never made it out of the barn alive all the way back in season 2.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Boyd and Tian-Chen push-pull the last cow to the barn, slam shut the door and Boyd slaps a talisman down to protect them.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2024
  • At last, Beth, Kayce and Rip did a last walk-through of the barn and the main house (that damn dining room table still there).
    — Charlie Mason, TVLine, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Over the next few decades, a farmer and then his nephew owned the building, using it for apple storage and as a barn where turkeys, cows, chickens and pigs lived, Grissom said.
    — Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The hotel recently added a barn for horses with riding lessons and a mini-petting-zoo with rabbits and other cuddly animals.
    — Katharina Kotrba, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024

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