But, you know, it is a barracks-like kind of deal, isn't it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 23, 2003] Reference

Go past these and bear to the left and you will see a row of two-story barracks-like buildings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Raw Truth] Reference

Although it appeared to be a military barracks-like structure, it was not, as was evidenced by the sign in front.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vagabond of Space]

Few refugees will be lucky enough to spend only half a year in the barracks-like temporary housing now going up around Sichuan.    From Wordnik.com.  [China's Rebuilding Effort Takes On Breakneck Pace] Reference

In answer, a girl about ten years of age trotted, backward, toward an inn whose low barracks-like building took up one entire side of the village square.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spirit Gate] Reference

At one end of this barracks-like city was the shining dome of the power plant; at the other was a downtown section of taverns, banks, and municipal offices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Up The Line]

Beyond the entrance, they found themselves in a barracks-like series of corridors and rooms, all hollowed in rock, mostly empty of either people or furnishings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Night of masks]

Even now, there are still many barracks-like units on the old landed sugar estates which have since been converted into state farms, and this is very depressing.    From Wordnik.com.  [MEETING ON 30 SEPTEMBER AND 1 OCTOBER 1965] Reference

Most of the buildings are four-story barracks-like concrete apartment houses, but here and there one of the centuries-old, elaborately stenciled log isbas still stands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Arctic Oil Rush] Reference

She was in a low, barracks-like room, made blindingly bright by the artificial sunlight of multiple tiers of halogen lamps hanging over table after table of potted plants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

A barracks-like complex of concrete rooms surrounded by walls and barbed wire, Mazibuka hostel can house more than 1,000 workers who sleep on bunks and generally see their families only once a year.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The youths jogged through the dusty streets to the barracks-like police station chanting armed struggle songs and outrage at the continuing slaughter of black people during the death throes of apartheid.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

He spoke of the "pent-up anger and frustration" of the black SASOL workers, and said that to them the plant meant "danger, arduous working conditions, barracks-like hostels, racial oppression, rumours of men killed in accidents during the night and whisked away, and generally a very oppressive environment.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Contents:] Reference

It is a perfectly new, good brick barracks-like town.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis] Reference

He learns of courage when transformed into a bird and spends a night in the barracks-like falconry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Creative Loafing Atlanta] Reference

It's a scheme to pump cash into his Basic Training Ministry, a barracks-like building a dozen blocks away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miami New Times | Complete Issue] Reference

The transformation of schools into barracks-like structures is the most widespread and systematic example of this.    From Wordnik.com.  [TODAY'S ZAMAN :: News]

At the extreme western end of "officers 'town" lay a plain, barracks-like building, with front porch upstairs and down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncle Sam's Boys as Lieutenants or, Serving Old Glory as Line Officers] Reference

He said the first job for his team is to modify Cell 8, a large, barracks-like cell that houses 54 beds and federal prisoners.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul & Matt's Sports Attack] Reference

Today it is a mix of cottage type homes and soviet-era barracks-like apartment buildings with absolutely no character or color.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference

Construction of large, barracks-like facilities in hundreds of cities, employing tens of thousands of people, that will someday become hip loft space when the workers become redundant?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traffick] Reference

On-slope resorts were rare, and the only travelers brave enough to sleep at altitude were hard-core mountaineers, who camped or slept in barracks-like huts accessible only via hiking paths.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

The house to which we had been directed was on the hill, and from its windows one could look down on the barracks-like pile of stone with the evil little black-barred slits of windows, below and perhaps a quarter of a mile away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dream Doctor] Reference