How to Use barn in a Sentence

barn

noun
  • They live in a big barn of a house.
  • O’Leary left the lantern in the barn and the cow kicked it over and started the fire.
    Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2025
  • 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 farmers headed out to the barn in boats and a Sea-Doo.
    Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • Meet and park at the Trust’s cider barn, 330 Bush Hill Road, and walk along the dirt road to the pavilion.
    courant.com, 16 Nov. 2021
  • There are tack rooms, feed rooms, and office space in the barns as well.
    Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Much of it was stored for decades in a stone worker’s barn.
    Jesse Leavenworth, Hartford Courant, 7 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • Lenny's gear barn at his parents' house, across the street from his house.
    Daniel Duane, Wired, 23 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • Which brings us to the scene in the barn where Peter infects Phil with the anthrax.
    Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2021
  • The 2,182-acre ranch has a main house, storage building and barn.
    oregonlive, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The bison slowly made her way to the barn for food, and Noble was able to close the door.
    Nara Schoenberg, Chicago Tribune, 25 May 2022
  • The two-story house where his father lives stood in the clearing, along with the barn.
    Steven Kurutz, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Lee Jones said no one was injured, and the fire was contained to one barn.
    Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Among them was Messier, who now is in Tim Yakteen’s barn.
    Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 8 Apr. 2022
  • If this one isn't already etched into yours, time to get back in the barn.
    Lizz Schumer, People.com, 23 Apr. 2025
  • 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 grounds contain a three-bedroom home as well as a guesthouse and a barn.
    WSJ, 22 Dec. 2021
  • The refugees had been spotted by guards, and Bricha guides had shooed their charges into a barn.
    Rebecca Frankel, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Phish invited me to visit Anastasio’s recording studio, in a barn in the Green Mountains just outside Burlington.
    Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025

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