How to Use barrel in a Sentence

barrel

1 of 2 noun
  • 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.
  • Just didn’t get enough barrel on it.
    — Dennis Lin, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Oil barrels -- the price raised there.
    — ABC News, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Rain barrels should have screens.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 18 June 2026
  • The price of a barrel of oil is at a four-year high.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Oil prices rose more than $2 a barrel.
    — ABC News, 2 June 2026
  • There was a rusty barrel half full of wood embers.
    — Jennifer Gonnerman, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The focus ring is large and takes up much of the barrel.
    — PC Magazine, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Like the style of these barrel pants for fall travel?
    — Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The biggest change was that the old man and barrel were gone.
    — Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Just trying to put [the] barrel on the ball.
    — Jose De Jesus Ortiz, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026
  • Baggy barrel jeans can be paired with sweaters and knits of all kinds.
    — India Roby, InStyle, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Knock a barrel over, add five seconds.
    — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Oil prices shot above $100 a barrel.
    — Cara Anna, Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2026
  • At the time, oil prices were $110 per barrel.
    — Scott Montgomery, Forbes.com, 25 Jan. 2026
  • The results might not be there, but the at-bats and the barrels are still there.
    — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2026
  • Allow me a moment to shoot some fish in a barrel.
    — John Shipley, Twin Cities, 25 Oct. 2025
  • That would add upwards of a million barrels a day.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2026
  • How many barrels are available?
    — Gregory Shahnovsky, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • The hat is a trash barrel and plywood painted black.
    — Mike Sullivan, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2026
  • This compact barrel sauna measures six feet wide and just four feet deep.
    — Dean Stattmann, Outside, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The bourbon is blended from barrels aged six to twelve years.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
  • Fox's hair was styled in big barrel curls that cascaded down to her chest.
    — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The wine then ages 18 months in first and second-use barrels.
    — Forbes.com, 20 June 2026
  • The bailiff reached over the witness stand to push the barrel toward the floor.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Brent crude is at $91 a barrel this morning.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 29 May 2026
  • If full-length denim feels too heavy for the season, try these barrel jeans.
    — Emily Weaver, PEOPLE, 29 May 2026
  • Brent crude was at $93 per barrel this morning.
    — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 2 June 2026

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.
  • That leads to them not barreling the sinker.
    — Sahadev Sharma, New York Times, 7 May 2026
  • Roy Watson and his wife were at home when the storm barreled in.
    — Kasha Patel, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • Jac Caglianone barreled his ninth homer in the fourth inning.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 19 June 2026
  • But the rest of space exploration has just barreled ahead.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The, the waves are barreling over and there was just one or two guys surfing there.
    — Outside Online, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The teens were shown being hit by heavy wind as the four-car train barreled forward.
    — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Can barrel up the baseball, but gap doubles seem to be his limit.
    — Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Rhodes barreled into Zayn, who rolled out of the ring.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 8 June 2026
  • That alone is enough to barrel me into even more depression.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
  • 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
  • Most actors would think twice before barreling through a glass door.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • But none of them came in a game this tight, with so much on the line, for a team barreling toward destiny.
    — The Athletic College Football Staff, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Art literally opens it up, splitting the body in half and barrelling through it at the guest.
    — Simon Thompson, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Yet Baidu’s big tech peers are also barreling into the space.
    — Lionel Lim, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2023
  • At one point in the second quarter, Sander barreled into the lane and flipped up a floater.
    — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Then the Chiefs snapped the ball and Kareem Hunt barreled ahead for the first down.
    — Chris Bumbaca, USA Today, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The impasse has the shutdown barreling toward the three-week mark.
    — Zac Anderson, USA Today, 19 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • Cynthia Hulett was home when the crash happened and walkd out to see the man's truck barreled into her car.
    — Ana Maria Soler, CBS News, 14 May 2026
  • Step out of any self-importance weighing you down and barrel forward with only your own game in mind.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
  • The plow driver helped pull her Jeep off the center of the tracks right before a train barreled through the area.
    — Meghan Schiller, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The truck barrelled down a hallway and became wedged between the walls as gunfire erupted.
    — Nouran Salahieh, CNN Money, 14 Mar. 2026
  • In an instant, the dense brush to my left came alive as 300 pounds of black fur and blur barreled toward me.
    — Katie Jackson, Outside, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Then a big Mercedes flying Nazi flags comes barreling down the road.
    — Alice Kaplan, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Kansas State will once again barrel through as long as Nowell's ankle is okay.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 24 Mar. 2023

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