bar a gate

Examples (10)

• At night, the guards bar the gate to secure the courtyard.
• We should bar the gate before the storm hits.
• They had already barred the gate when we arrived.
• The farmer quickly barred the gate to keep the cattle in.
• By dawn, the castle gates were barred and silent.
• If you bar the gate, the wind won't blow it open.
• Don't forget to bar the gate after you leave.
• The sentry was ordered to bar the main gate at once.
• Why did they bar the gate during daylight hours?
• The old gate won't close unless it's barred from the inside.