How to Use barn in a Sentence

barn

noun
  • They live in a big barn of a house.
  • What about Shep’s room above the barn?
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The two found Mary's body in the barn.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Gaping barn doors need to be shut.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2026
  • All of our barns are working barns.
    Kari Barnett, Sun Sentinel, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Recording in your house or in your barn.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 27 Feb. 2026
  • These are great historic barns.
    Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The barn doesn’t feel or sound the same without her.
    Molly Guthrey, Twin Cities, 17 Feb. 2026
  • There was a large tin of this treacle in the barn.
    Literary Hub, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Plank by pine plank, the framing of a round barn emerges.
    Kenny Choi, CBS News, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Who gets to decide that the horse is to be let out of the barn?
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
  • The two then went to the house and found Mary’s body in the barn.
    Stylecaster Editors, StyleCaster, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The rooms The guest rooms and suites have a sort of chic barn feel.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Of course, at that point, the horse was already let out of the barn.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 14 June 2021
  • There are tack rooms, feed rooms, and office space in the barns as well.
    Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Lenny's gear barn at his parents' house, across the street from his house.
    Daniel Duane, Wired, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Check in at the barn and purchase a picking bag.
    Elaine Rewolinski, jsonline.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • There was trees and a little barn behind it.
    David Searcy, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Eight airplane-hangar-size barns stand in a row, and eight more across the road.
    Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Opening the barn, a bigger beer hall and lots more food.
    Rosalind Bowling, Nashville Tennessean, 23 Sep. 2025
  • That love affair with the movies started … in a barn.
    CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Most of the barn appeared to be fully burnt to the ground.
    Tom Dougherty, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Lowe maintains that the deer escaped from the barn.
    Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 15 June 2026
  • As flames spread from the barn, neighbors came running to help.
    Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The compound includes a main house, a barn, and a pool house.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 4 June 2026
  • Now, there is a barn for goats, pigs and cattle at the center.
    Connor Sanders, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Tonight, there’s a group meeting in the reindeer barn.
    Lauren Ashley Bishop, Variety, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Devin Booker couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn, for one thing.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 13 July 2021
  • The beams the lights hang on are the big beams from the (original) barn.
    Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Country kids playing in the barn.
    Kara Nesvig, Parents, 12 Sep. 2025

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