BARS in a Sentence

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For BARS, below is one of 336 sentences:
She begged that, at least, the child might be permitted to pass her little hand through the bars so that she could kiss it.

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 Meanings and Examples of BARS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
bar
 n.  a counter where you can obtain food or drink; cafe; strip; stick
barred
 a.  closed or secured with a bar; marked with bands of colour or light;
barring
 n.  the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Moreover, all the windows of this silent dwelling were grated with heavy iron bars, even the attic windows in the roof.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT
2  There were bars at all the windows of the ground floor.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VII—CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA
3  The little green flowers of the nankin paper ran in a calm and orderly manner to those iron bars, without being startled or thrown into confusion by their funereal contact.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS
4  She begged that, at least, the child might be permitted to pass her little hand through the bars so that she could kiss it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—AUSTERITIES
5  Where gratings are not lacking, iron bars are not lacking.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE
6  In this box he hides a watch-spring, and this watch-spring, properly handled, cuts good-sized chains and bars of iron.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP
7  There one could descry four dormer-windows, guarded with bars; they were the windows of the Fine-Air.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT
8  She approached the railing, felt of the bars one after the other, and readily recognized the one which Marius had moved.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG
9  This grating, made of stout, transverse bars, was about two feet square.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIV—PRISONER
10  Through the bars a view could be had of a dark aperture, something like the flue of a chimney, or the pipe of a cistern.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIV—PRISONER
11  Beyond the heavy, rusty iron bars, a sort of dark and vaulted corridor could be descried.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—THE "SPUN" MAN
12  Flies were entering and emerging through the bars of the grating.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES T...
13  The bars were filled with drinkers.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 48 A FAMILY AFFAIR
14  The walls are thick, the doors strong, and the bars solid; besides, your window opens immediately over the sea.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 50 CHAT BETWEEN BROTHER AND SISTER
15  It was a tolerably fine winter's day, and a ray of that pale English sun which lights but does not warm came through the bars of her prison.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 54 CAPTIVITY: THE THIRD DAY
Example Sentence: (126 in 9 pages)
16  He rushed out of the bar and chundered in the street.
17  Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.
18  It's hard to bend an iron bar.
19  Staff were pilfering behind the bar.
20  The hotel has a licensed bar.
21  We perched on bar stools and had a beer.
22  He barged past me to get to the bar.
23  He's been working at a bar called the Flamingo.
24  I bought a bar of soap in the supermarket.
25  He seized on a bar and went up to them.
26  I found David in the bar of the Red Lion.
27  Move the mouse pointer to the menu bar.
28  The hotel bar is open to non-residents.
29  The supermarket is giving away a bar of chocolate to everyone who comes today.
30  I'll see you in the bar later.