barnlike
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Cygnet had long outgrown its technologically outdated, barnlike theater in Old Town San Diego, its lease was uncertain and its operations were scattered around the area, notes Sean Murray, the Cygnet’s co-founder and artistic director.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2025
The barnlike wooden building is drafty and unheated, its dark wood and skeleton of support beams and framing unfinished and exposed.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 3, 2023
The barnlike environs of the Lunt-Fontanne prove to be one of Broadway’s less accommodating spaces for savoring Sondheim’s intricate lyrics and Jonathan Tunick’s timeless orchestrations.
From Washington Post • Mar. 26, 2023
The property is stark and hilly, made up of a series of small barnlike structures, one of which houses Johns’s studio.
From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2019
The hulking Mark I, not yet dismantled, still sat in its barnlike home: a corrugated metal building the length of a football field that hove into view while they were still miles away.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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