barracked

past tense of barrack

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for barracked
Verb
  • In 2023, two adults harassed a 9-year-old child at an elementary school track meet.
    Megan Gandy, The Conversation, 1 July 2026
  • The operation, ProPublica found, ensnared innocent residents of the majority-Black city who said they were targeted and harassed because of their race.
    Topher Sanders, ProPublica, 30 June 2026
Verb
  • Like many of the people camped outside their families’ homes in Venezuela, Mendoza refuses to believe they are gone until the last moment possible.
    Isa Soares, CNN Money, 1 July 2026
  • The floods began in the early morning hours of July 4, while many people were still asleep in their homes and visitors were camped along the Guadalupe River in anticipation of the Fourth of July.
    Samantha Cookinham, NBC news, 27 June 2026
Verb
  • The woman alleged that Jackson repeatedly refused to delete the video and then taunted her with it.
    Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026
  • When Metcalf and others asked him to leave, Anthony taunted and provoked Metcalf, took out a knife and stabbed him, prosecutor Bill Wirskye said, according to KTVT.
    Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 9 June 2026
Verb
  • It was cast by the same foundry in London, Whitechapel Bell Foundry, that produced the original bell in 1752, now housed at Independence Hall in Philadelphia.
    Daily News, Daily News, 4 July 2026
  • During its first decades the seventeen-story building housed The Miami News.
    Ada Ferrer, The New York Review of Books, 4 July 2026
Verb
  • Now HeatWorld is reporting that the two have been very concerned with their security lately, particularly after Eugenie was heckled by a man making comments about her father in March.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 24 June 2026
  • Everyone is mad because fans at a SPORTING EVENT openly heckled a player?
    Zach Dean OutKick, FOXNews.com, 22 June 2026
Verb
  • The biggest games, the greatest stages, have been quartered off by a velvet rope.
    Marcus Thompson II, New York Times, 13 June 2026
  • This side of deeply roasted, tender sweet potatoes comes quartered and seasoned with GK’s take on togarashi.
    Kate Kassin, Bon Appetit Magazine, 30 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • On that night in March, to the surprise of nobody, Arsenal ran their mid-table Premier League hosts ragged, beating them 5-1, with Henry and Freddie Ljungberg scoring twice, and Kolo Toure netting the other.
    Dan Sheldon, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • His father also roomed with Smart.
    Jeff Sentell, AJC.com, 12 June 2026
  • Sat next to each other on the bus, roomed together.
    Tom Mulherin, Boston Herald, 8 May 2026
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“Barracked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/barracked. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.

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