How to Use barnstorm in a Sentence

barnstorm

verb
  • He spent the months leading up to the election barnstorming around the country.
  • The national soccer team barnstormed through the country.
  • Spicer and the rest of the movie group barnstormed 11 cities in seven days to promote it.
    — Marisa Miller, Indianapolis Star, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Paul told Semafor with Massie by his side as the two barnstormed the state this week.
    — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The Bananas are a barnstorming baseball team that’s about fans and fun first.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Create your own eight-team all-star barnstorming league, no team owners needed.
    — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 6 June 2020
  • Or in theaters for three months as a creator does a barnstorming tour and on YouTube in the fall?
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 31 May 2026
  • Trump’s campaign canceled events from surrogates who were scheduled to barnstorm in Iowa this week.
    — Mabinty Quarshie, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The teams barnstormed, played exhibition games during the week or after the season.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 1 June 2024
  • For months, Vukmir and Nicholson have barnstormed across the state to court party activists.
    — Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 May 2018
  • In a bid to boost his support, Trump plans to barnstorm Iowa over the coming days, with four rallies over the weekend.
    — TIME, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Both candidates have barnstormed the states in the closing days of the campaign, making their final pitches to voters.
    — Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Members of his Cabinet are not planning to barnstorm the country, either.
    — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Their early polling lead has withered in the face of Blankenship barnstorming the state and spending millions of his money.
    — Tim Loh, Bloomberg.com, 19 Mar. 2018
  • And what better way for a company founded by an ex-Uber executive to do that than by barnstorming the rest of the globe.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 1 Aug. 2018
  • Black teams played on city sandlots and country fields, with the best barnstorming their way across the country and throughout the Caribbean.
    — Rob Ruck, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Feb. 2020
  • New Horizons is going in search of potential new Kuiper Belt objects to barnstorm.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 29 Apr. 2022
  • State of the Union addresses often serve as springboards for presidents to barnstorm the country and drive home their visions.
    — Zac Anderson, USA Today, 24 Feb. 2026
  • In Boston, voters will pick at least three new city councilors among a field of 18 candidates, who have been barnstorming the city.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Vukmir and Nicholson have been barnstorming across the state trying to reach activists ahead of next month's state party convention.
    — Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Many of the teams would barnstorm across the country to play exhibition matches to make money and this was done outside the league’s regular season.
    — Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Red Grange was barnstorming with George Halas’ Bears, traveling by train.
    — Phil Rosenthal, chicagotribune.com, 25 Aug. 2019
  • Since the frenzy in Iowa one week ago, candidates have barnstormed the state ahead of its primary on Tuesday, the nation's first.
    — New York Times, 10 Feb. 2020
  • Teams from various leagues competed, as well as barnstorming clubs like the legendary New York Rens.
    — Victor Mather, New York Times, 31 May 2017
  • Buttigieg spent the July 4 holiday barnstorming the state and plans three more visits there this month, according to his campaign.
    — Sara Burnett, chicagotribune.com, 7 July 2019
  • Mike Pence is barnstorming his way from Valdosta to Albany to Vidalia.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 26 May 2023
  • With the contract, Pyle became the first real football agent, and Grange received a cut of the gate receipts for all the games played on the barnstorming tour.
    — The Si Staff, SI.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • The inexhaustible Rachel Chavkin directs, which feels right for a musical about a steely, glamorous woman barnstorming through the art world.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 4 Jan. 2024
  • He's barnstormed the moon in Apollo 10, skimming the surface at low altitudes to map spots for the next mission's historic landing.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Yet Trump’s rally in Sanford, Florida, came amid concerns that his plans to barnstorm the country could put him and others at risk.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 13 Oct. 2020

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