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Examples

  • My posts are more like leering eyes through the food slot in the double-barred door or a flaming bag left on the doorstep.

    Apology of a Madman 2009

  • My posts are more like leering eyes through the food slot in the double-barred door or a flaming bag left on the doorstep.

    2009 November 19 archive | J. Robert King 2009

  • Scundoo smiled yet more wan and gray, closed the door on the heels of his departing visitor, and barred and double-barred it.

    THE MASTER OF MYSTERY 2010

  • My posts are more like leering eyes through the food slot in the double-barred door or a flaming bag left on the doorstep.

    2009 November archive | J. Robert King 2009

  • Honey Farm had a double-barred gate, which had been left open.

    Deadly Intent Lynda La Plante 2008

  • For example, with reference to the second puzzle (Section 1.2), Smith and Varzi (2000) have a double-barred theory that is of type (2) with respect to bona fide boundaries and of type (4) with respect to fiat boundaries.

    Boundary Varzi, Achille 2008

  • Honey Farm had a double-barred gate, which had been left open.

    Deadly Intent Lynda La Plante 2008

  • Honey Farm had a double-barred gate, which had been left open.

    Deadly Intent Lynda La Plante 2008

  • We took a turn and came to a control booth, a set of double-barred doors.

    Change of Heart Jodi Picoult 2008

  • There is no sense that an unsolicited piece, no matter how well written, would ever see the light of day in this double-barred closed shop.

    BBC Bans Emily Maitlis Spectator Column 2007

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