"barrier" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The rood screen was a physical and symbolic barrier, separating the chancel, the domain of the clergy, from the nave where lay people gathered to worship.
- Students who officially became lawyers crossed the symbolic physical barrier and were "admitted to the bar".
- The selection of Ms. Campbell broke what had become the ultimate symbolic and psychological barrier for Canadian women.
- Within days Israeli journalists were allowed into Cairo, breaking a symbolic barrier, and from there the peace process quickly gained momentum.
- All that separates the two narrators is a trap door, serving as the thin symbolic barrier between adult life and childhood.
- She glanced up at the photosphere, the symbolic barrier separating her forever from the Universe of humanity.
- The eight-minute two-mile may not be half the symbolic barrier that the four-minute mile once represented, but it clearly is no Sunday jog.
- It recently crossed the symbolic barrier of 10,000 inhabitants and thus became officially a city.
- He shifted the bow from his left shoulder to his right so that it wasn't a symbolic barrier between the two of them.
- The boxes are loosely tied with twine, which cannot protect their contents but may serve as a symbolic barrier against loss.
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