Used in a Sentence

barra

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for barra.

Editorial note

As far as the OSS comunity goes, this is probably a career limiting move by Barra right here.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A district of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where most venues of the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics were situated.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of barra gathered in one view.

noun

A district of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where most venues of the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics were situated.

noun

An island of Outer Hebrides, Scotland.

noun

A place in the Gambia.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for barra.

noun

A district of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where most venues of the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics were situated.

noun

An island of Outer Hebrides, Scotland.

noun

A place in the Gambia.

noun

(Australia) A barramundi.

Example sentences

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As far as the OSS comunity goes, this is probably a career limiting move by Barra right here.

2

What actually matters: The hypothesis for de Barra and his colleagues’ study was therefore pretty clear-cut.

3

Both Dave Burke and Hugo Barra are hugely talented people and great to work with.

4

What's not going to get done w/ Android now that Barra is not at Google?

5

Vic Gundotra and Hugo Barra are among the all time worst speakers at Google I/O.

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What's completely missing from this article is how Barra impacted Android?

7

I guess Hugo Barra would be a boon for the internationalization of Xiaomi smartphones.

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What do you think Hugo Barra can bring to Xiaomi?

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Google's Hugo Barra headed to Xiaomi just last year.

10

Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang and Hugo Barra presented.

11

) The comment from Barra was the real shocker.

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Hugo Barra ended up at a Chinese company (Xiaomi) and Google just invested in Lenovo, but unless there's a big policy change on the way the Android/China beast will get further and further out of control.

Quote examples

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Barra used a graph showing that China produces more college degrees to draw the conclusion that China is "more educated" than the United States.

2

Everyone made fun of Mary Barra for her "this all happened at the 'old GM', so the 'new GM' can't be responsible" but there's a reason it worked.

3

Barra is only a year into his job as leader of Mi’s internationalization efforts, but he’s already “sick and tired” of hearing his company derided as an Apple copycat.

4

Xiaomi (Show (as in shower) me) That's how Hugo Barra described it, but listening to the pronunciation of "Xiao", it doesn't sound exactly right - you lose the sound of the 'i'.

Proper noun examples

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The story sort of hints that Barra's girlfriend was either poached by or traded-up for Sergey Brin (forgive my language, it's terribly sexist...

2

Sergei's girlfriend's ex is Hugo Barra, not Andy Rubin.

3

Barra only ever had 6,000 Twitter followers.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use barra in a sentence?

As far as the OSS comunity goes, this is probably a career limiting move by Barra right here.

What does barra mean?

A district of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where most venues of the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics were situated.

What part of speech is barra?

barra is commonly used as noun.