Read full poem →And he had squeezed himself betwixt the bars,
Dictionary Entry
A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
In a Sentence
“The window was protected by steel bars.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. barsbars ironbars behindbars twobars errorbars steelbars vertical
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Poetry examples for “bars”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →That burned on loves and deeds the darkest done,
Athwart the incestuous prisoner's bride-house bars;
And thine, most highest of all their fires but one,
Read full poem →Be patient with you?
When pain's iron bars
Their rivets tighten, stern
Read full poem →For my lord has a casket full of rolls
Of minted sovereigns, and silver bars.
I laugh to think how he'll show his scars
Read full poem →But hedge our Siherty about;
These bars inclose that wider den
Of those wild creatures, calUd men ;
Read full poem →to a degree of attenuation ; and that the poet of nature
casts his gold in bars, whilst the poet of art draws his
iulo wire.
Read full poem →The door was shut. I looked between
Its iron bars; and saw it lie,
My garden, mine, beneath the sky,
Read full poem →Till its blood is red on the cruel bars;
Read full poem →To tarnish with a doubt each golden kiss?
This is the Day most certainly. This bars
Us now from any hidden darkness spun.
Read full poem →Being, for once, borne clearly above
All banks and bars of ignorance,
By this bright spring-tide of pure love,