noun
barn
CEFR B2
an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals
In a sentence
Six example sentences with barn, each labelled with its topic.
The old barn was converted with skylights cut between the rafters, and the timber frame was left fully exposed.
Architecture
Wyeth painted the same barn in every season, and collectors can date a canvas by the color of its boards.
Art
Fiddlers gathered in the barn each October, and the dancing raised enough dust to blur the lantern light.
Music
Dutch settlers raised a barn with the doors on the gable end, a design that still marks farms along the Hudson.
History
A full barn in autumn let the farmer wait for higher grain prices instead of selling straight from the field.
Economics
She shot the barn at dusk with the doors open, so the lantern inside glowed against the graying boards.
Photography
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