BARBER in a Sentence

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25 example sentences for BARBER, such as:

1. He is the best barber in this area.
2. His father apprentice d him to a barber.
3. The Leghorn barber said nothing and went to work.
4. In another, a barber, an abbot, and two cardinals.
5. Matvey was followed by the barber with all the necessaries for shaving.

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 Meanings and Examples of BARBER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
barber
 n.  haircutter; one whose business is to cut hair and to shave or trim beards
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  She crouched in her chair as she imagined men talking of her, thick-voiced, obscene, in barber shops and the tobacco-stinking pool parlor.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
2  They all pounded the floor of the barn in old-fashioned square dances, swinging their partners, skipping, laughing, under the incantations of Del Snafflin the barber, who fiddled and called the figures.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
3  Dr. Westlake, Sam Clark, Nat Hicks, and Del Snafflin were talking in Del's barber shop.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
4  Next morning, Monday, after disposing of the embalmed head to a barber, for a block, I settled my own and comrade's bill; using, however, my comrade's money.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13. Wheelbarrow.
5  Three-fourths black; barber and waiter; from Kentucky; nineteen years free; paid for self and family over three thousand dollars; deacon in the Baptist church.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
6  My head feels deliciously light and cool, and the barber said I could soon have a curly crop, which will be boyish, becoming, and easy to keep in order.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FIFTEEN
7  In a barber's window I saw tails of hair with the prices marked, and one black tail, not so thick as mine, was forty dollars.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FIFTEEN
8  I once prevailed on the barber to give me some of the suds or lather, out of which I picked forty or fifty of the strongest stumps of hair.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VI.
9  In another, a barber, an abbot, and two cardinals.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER VIII.
10  As he had twenty times touched at Leghorn, he remembered a barber in St. Ferdinand Street; he went there to have his beard and hair cut.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22. The Smugglers.
11  The barber gazed in amazement at this man with the long, thick and black hair and beard, which gave his head the appearance of one of Titian's portraits.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22. The Smugglers.
12  The Leghorn barber said nothing and went to work.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22. The Smugglers.
13  Matvey was followed by the barber with all the necessaries for shaving.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2
14  "Matvey, my sister Anna Arkadyevna will be here tomorrow," he said, checking for a minute the sleek, plump hand of the barber, cutting a pink path through his long, curly whiskers.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2
15  Stepan Arkadyevitch could not answer, as the barber was at work on his upper lip, and he raised one finger.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2
Example Sentence:
1  He is the best barber in this area.
2  His father apprentice d him to a barber.
3  It is general information for potential entrepreneurs wishing to start a beauty, esthetics or tanning salon, or a barber shop.
4  The barbers share same service price of haircut: they charge six dollars for boy and ten for girl.