Barrier in a sentence as a noun

Ask yourself: what are the barriers to switching?

Sperm cells, in turn, have some sort of enzyme payload that breaks down this barrier.

There's little-to-no barrier to starting social apps and the like.

It takes a lot of this enzyme before the barrier is weakened enough for a sperm to gain access.

It was like the wind was sucked out of the room behind the barrier, but the floor was so loud only the two all-male teams heard the question.

Its very hard to do the right thing, when individuals with power will actively work to put a bribe barrier between you and your work.

Hold your arms out with pride and hope that someone on the other side of the security barrier sees you and decides to opt out as well.

Even allowing for a language barrier, this has to be the most overtly Huxleyan branding I've seen on a consumer product.

"To break the minute barrier [they] fired a control laser at an opaque crystal, sending its atoms into a quantum superposition of two states.

I'm told that CS enrollments are now at record highs, past even the numbers we saw during the dotcom era; perhaps the answer is that there is no barrier, and we're about to get flooded with supply.

Since the ball motion, physics, and coordinates were all in floating point, and the ball is constantly being pushed "down" the sloped table by the gravity vector in every frame, we found that floating point error would gradually accumulate until the ball's position was suddenly on the other side of the barrier!

The locker-room atmosphere that stuff like this creates is a huge barrier to entry for a lot of people, women especially, who infer that on top of all the technically difficult stuff that everyone has to learn to be CS types, they'll also have to deal with a constant barrage of "you're not our kind" flung at them by the in-group.

Barrier definitions

noun

a structure or object that impedes free movement

noun

any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective; "intolerance is a barrier to understanding"

See also: roadblock

noun

anything serving to maintain separation by obstructing vision or access