How to Use barrel in a Sentence

barrel

1 of 2 noun
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  • They drank a whole barrel of beer.
  • Oak barrels are used for aging the wine.
  • The price of oil is over 30 dollars a barrel.
  • The bailiff reached over the witness stand to push the barrel toward the floor.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 5 Mar. 2024
  • These days, wave-chasers come from near and far to brave the breaks and barrels.
    — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 3 Nov. 2023
  • So is the percentage of balls he’s hit with the barrel of his bat (14.7%).
    — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 6 May 2023
  • And crude oil prices have been rising for the past month, up to about $81 per barrel.
    — oregonlive, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The leader and hook would be tied to the remaining eye of the barrel swivel and the rig is complete.
    — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The barrel pulls some of those super harsh notes, so you’re left with the great jalapeño flavor in the tequila.
    — Aly Walansky, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024
  • The crowd gathered to watch, oohing and aahing at the glowing barrel as it was lifted up.
    — Hadley Green, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Scott also has a separate line and a rainwater barrel on the side of the house to give a soak to the rest of the plants.
    — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Fox's hair was styled in big barrel curls that cascaded down to her chest.
    — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Syringes in the grass with blood still in the barrel; block upon block of empty stores, the plumbing ripped out for scrap.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023
  • My wavy hair got more use out of the curling barrels, oval brush and diffuser.
    — Jacqueline Saguin, Good Housekeeping, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Swift kept her glam soft, with a natural mauve lip and her long hair styled in loose barrel curls.
    — Condé Nast, Glamour, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Deputies at the scene of a body discovered in a barrel in Malibu, Calif., on Monday.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 31 July 2023
  • The price of Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, rose more than 4% Friday to trade at nearly $90 a barrel.
    — Anna Cooban, CNN, 13 Oct. 2023
  • According to a rep for the brand, the Pinot finish was 1.5 years, the used bourbon barrels was 3.5 years, and the brandy barrels was a long nine years.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The 1-inch ceramic barrel is small enough for short hair and large enough for longer, thicker hair.
    — Nena Farrell, WIRED, 12 July 2023
  • Williams suggested that Prince could have been trapped in the gully behind them and killed like a fish in a barrel.
    — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2023
  • The tree keg stand was designed to fit a slim quarter barrel keg below and support a 5-ft. tree above.
    — Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Johnson has ordered the case sealed, lock, stock and coal-smoking barrel.
    — John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 21 July 2023
  • This flagship wine is made from grapes sourced from the estate’s 95 acres of vines and uses only the best barrel lots in the final blend.
    — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 12 Mar. 2024
  • The handful of barrel machines in Europe cannot meet this demand.
    — Jack Watling, Foreign Affairs, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The details of the liquid’s journey are as follows—the whisky was first aged in refill and first-fill bourbon barrels for 43 years.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The Petit Verdot wine was fortified with brandy and aged four years in barrel.
    — The Arizona Republic, 17 Mar. 2024
  • At the time, some analysts said the reduction threatened to send prices at the pump jolting upward and the cost of a barrel of oil past $100.
    — Evan Halper, Washington Post, 4 June 2023
  • Make homemade ice cream, tour historic houses, and kids ride a barrel train.
    — Elaine Rewolinski, Journal Sentinel, 1 June 2023
  • Treanor said global oil prices have increased this spring to more than $80 per barrel.
    — Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Then, Pierson saw industrial-size barrels, the ones used by cartels to dispose of human remains.
    — Beth Warren, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2024
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barrel

2 of 2 verb
  • She came running out of her office and went barreling past us down the hall.
  • The truck went barreling down Main Street.
  • Roy Watson and his wife were at home when the storm barreled in.
    — Kasha Patel, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2023
  • At night, the distant roar of waves barreling down onto the reef lulls the town to sleep.
    — Daniel Cole, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Feb. 2024
  • There’s no rule that says a man can’t barrel race or that a woman can’t ride a bull.
    — Rose Minutaglio, ELLE, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The greats have been able to keep their essence and edge, all while barreling through the doors of mainstream with their hits.
    — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 22 Jan. 2024
  • At one point in the second quarter, Sander barreled into the lane and flipped up a floater.
    — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The 2014 vintage is the latest, meaning the whisky was distilled and barreled that year.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 15 Feb. 2023
  • In the clip, the five-time all-star can be seen barreling out of the arena’s parking lot in the hulking truck.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Then, on May 17, a drone barreled straight into his chest.
    — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 10 June 2023
  • Police and fire agencies across the region were beefing up staffing as the storm barrels north.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
  • That has come into play in San Diego over the past two weeks as major storms — with more on the way — barreled into the region.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2024
  • When the bear approaches, the big moose barrels through the brush with remarkable speed, sending it up the trunk of a nearby tree.
    — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 15 June 2023
  • Typhoon Saola, which barreled through Hong Kong on September 1, was the strongest to hit the city in five years.
    — Kathleen Magramo, CNN, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Yet Baidu’s big tech peers are also barreling into the space.
    — Lionel Lim, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Soon, a new cast will take over the roles to portray the pair in older age, helping the story barrel toward the civil war that leads to the end of a dynasty.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Through it all, Reeves somehow barrels through the picture with equal parts rampaging force and Zen-like cool.
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Fractured and fallen utility poles blocked the roads as gusts barreled across the island.
    — Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Everything went blank as the SUV barreled towards them.
    — Glenn E. Rice, Kansas City Star, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The new rule doesn’t even fix the real problem, which is players barreling down the field and colliding at top speeds.
    — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Distillers must ensure the bourbon is barreled at 125 proof.
    — Chris Sims, The Enquirer, 14 June 2023
  • While her wines are in the cellar, Joseph does barrel tastings almost daily.
    — Jill Barth, Forbes, 16 June 2022
  • The latter was the final car to enter the fray and barreled into DeFrancesco, sending him airborne.
    — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Mar. 2023
  • But throughout the trial, Buzbee continued to point the finger at Erickson, who was the first to barrel through the crosswalk.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Thousands of cars barrel down this bustling strip of U.S. Highway 67 in Duncanville every day.
    — Maggie Prosser, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Kansas State will once again barrel through as long as Nowell's ankle is okay.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Now, as a new storm barrels toward eastern Canada, the community is in a race against time to save it.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Hot Wheels also offered its famed orange plastic tracks for the cars to barrel down in miniature races.
    — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Versions of this plant were on the planet for nearly 300 million years before the space rock barreled into Earth.
    — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
  • One area of China’s economy continued to barrel along in the first three months of this year: exports.
    — New York Times, 17 Apr. 2022

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