barged

past tense of barge

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of barged Three gunmen barged into a small house in an impoverished neighborhood in South Africa and opened fire on a group enjoying a party inside, killing at least 11 people including a pregnant woman, police and local authorities said Wednesday. — ABC News, 23 Sep. 2026 The unsuspecting targets who showed up instead found Hansen and a camera crew, who barged into the room on Hansen’s cue. — Daniel Lachance, The Conversation, 21 Sep. 2026 Masked men carrying M16s barged in, handcuffed him, and pinned him to the floor. — Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026 On July 24, policemen in plainclothes barged into his house late evening and took him to the Navrangpura police station in Ahmedabad. — Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 2 Sep. 2026 Last year, The Studio barged in and gobbled up six nominations; this year, Hacks did the same. — Joe Reid, Vulture, 17 July 2026 In truth, a goal might not have counted anyway, since Haaland barged into Guehi earlier in the counter-attack. — Oliver Kay, New York Times, 12 July 2026 Some who did enter had their seats taken by those who barged through security. — Amaia Gavica, Miami Herald, 26 June 2026 Neusch barged past the couple on the stairs and released a flock of insect drones from his leg pouch. — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 26 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for barged
Verb
  • The longtime headquarters of CBS News’s most hallowed properties—60 Minutes and Inside Edition—was recently hollowed out in a Paramount acquisition that saw personalities and producers shuffled to a center across the street.
    — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 24 Sep. 2026
  • The dispute has caused confusion for over a million potential voters who could be shuffled among districts.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • As a result, the Great Lawn had to be shut down two months ealier for repairs and resodding after tens of thousands of concertgoers stomped it into a muddy mess.
    — Lincoln Anderson, New York Daily News, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Letter writers recalled how Paden saved his father’s life when a cow nearly stomped him to death in a field, after the elder Paden came between the cow and her calf.
    — Glenn Rice, Kansas City Star, 21 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Colorado stumbled out of its Big 12 opener with a 23-13 loss to Baylor, dropping Coach Prime's Buffaloes to 2-2 and looking like (potentially) the worst team in the conference.
    — Amber Harding OutKick, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2026
  • A couple of years later, Noah Kravitz of Oxford, unaware of Müyesser and Pokrovskiy’s solution, stumbled on Graham’s conjecture in an online archive of unsolved problems.
    — Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 28 Sep. 2026

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“Barged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/barged. Accessed 7 Oct. 2026.

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