barred

IPA: bˈɑrd

adjective

  • Having bars; striped.
  • Prevented, either by a physical barrier or by conditions.
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Examples of "barred" in Sentences

  • The Spanish mountain specialist was unable to defend his title last year because Astana was barred from the race because of doping scandals.
  • Companies found in violation of the U.S. law risk being barred from the American financial system or from receiving U.S. government contracts.
  • This committee should be disbanded and a new one formed, and all the participants of the secret meetings should be barred from the new committee.
  • Week by week more of the socialist papers were barred from the mails, and in a number of instances the Black Hundreds destroyed the socialist presses.
  • In an arena dominated by men, however, Mary is barred from the academic community; as a young woman with unusual interests she is suspected of sinful behavior.
  • So long as a man's vagaries did no special hurt to the community, the community let the man alone, nor was Pentfield barred from the cabins of men who possessed white wives.
  • Both were suspended and barred from the red and yellow-striped fleet when their weight reached around 20 stone, apparently too much for the relatively cramped cabins and seats.
  • NEW YORK — A key government witness has been barred from the trial of a Tanzanian man accused in a plot to bomb two U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998, delaying the case until next week.
  • There is also immense curiosity about the possible fallout from Presidents Obama and Chavez being in the same room, not to mention rife speculation over Cuba, the only nation barred from the Summit.

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