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How to use the word barrel in a Sentence?

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People in Syria are used to barrel bombs, chemical weapons attacks, heavy artillery, shelling, Russian bombardment, ISIS, the list goes on about how vulnerable these displaced people are.

Mouaz Moustafa

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Kevin McCarthy owns George Santos, lock, stock and barrel, if George Santos wasn’t seated, what would the math have been for Speaker McCarthy? He would have had to flip another vote or get two people to vote ‘present.’.

Democratic House

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Energy stocks remain the best bet because as long as oil prices stay above $ 80 a barrel, they're going to continue to have record sales and earnings.

Louis Navellier

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Pro-life candidates for office understood this truth during their primary battles, and they cannot afford to alienate their base as we barrel towards the general election. It is not smart politics to mislead or disengage with the base of voters you need to turn out and vote. Pro-life candidates must stay true to their word and campaign on the issue of saving human life to ensure pro-life voters are energized and head to the polls.

Lila Rose

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There's still a chance that come October or November, if these economies wobble and don't fall into recession, we could see $ 120 a barrel crude prices once again.

Tom Kloza

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I called Megan Fox. I was like, ‘ You are n’t here for me, ’ i ’m in my room, and I ’m like freaking out on Taylor Hill/FilmMagic and, dude, I put the shotgun in my mouth, and I ’m yelling on the phone and like the barrel’s in my mouth. I go to cock the shotgun and the bullet as it comes back up, the shell just gets jammed. Megan’s like dead silent.

Machine Gun Kelly

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Over the medium term, copper prices do have more room to fall, especially as we stare down the barrel of a recession.

Daniel Ghali

Found on CNN
2 years ago

My daughters and I were practicing — I play polo a lot; along time ago people would say, how can you afford it?I played with the worst horse on the planet, but I learned and eventually after I made money, I started to go into...barrel racing. It's very, very delicate, and I brought my daughters into it and Taylor Sheridan was at the same barn, and he hadn’t made it yet.

Sylvester Stallone

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

But we’ve seen that Getty Images’s not happening. Oil prices are way up. I do n’t know, today, $ 119 a barrel, that’s showing you that there have n’t been announcements of supply and I do n’t see them making steps on that.

David Malpass

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

With oil prices at $ 115 a barrel, it's very uncomfortable.

Mark Zandi

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Oil prices are decreasing, gas prices should too, last time oil was $ 96 a barrel, gas was $ 3.62 a gallon. Now it's $ 4.31. Oil and gas companies shouldn't pad their profits at the expense of hardworking Americans.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Tristan Wheelock/Bloomberg via Getty Images would reduce the price of crude oil and gasoline -- that'd be good for the United States -- but, importantly, Tristan Wheelock/Bloomberg via Getty Images would deny $ 50 a barrel to Vladimir Putin, we are, by shutting down American energy, we are fueling a communist invasion.

Mike Pompeo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The left has captured the minds of an entire generation of kids, if you’re by default through our education system starting in elementary school, you are getting a lock stock and barrel progressive education that prepares you to be dependent on government.

Pete Hegseth

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There is a very good chance we would reach $ 100 [ per barrel ]. That's going to be inflationary with an exclamation point, we don't need that at all. We can't afford that at all.

Robert Yawger

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Cracker Barrel negligence didn't just cause Mr. Smith physical harm ; Cracker Barrel negligence took away part of his identity.

Plaintiff William Cronnon

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It reminds me of when we hit $ 145 a barrel in July 2008 and some banks predicted $ 200 by year's end.

Tom Kloza

Found on CNN
3 years ago

OPEC is not interested in pushing prices back down to $ 60 a barrel. They have zero interest.

Francisco Blanch

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This demand recovery isn't going to break at $ 80, $ 90 or even $ 100 a barrel. Remember, everything else has gone up, i know $ 100 sounds expensive but it ain't that expensive in the context of things.

Francisco Blanch

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Right now you can get all the [ publicly-listed ] companies like ourselves out of the production of oil and gas, it will not have a single barrel of impact on the overall demand level, because all of that production will in essence migrate to many other countries — national oil companies — who will satisfy that demand.

Wael Sawan

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I know what I’m handing [the actor], plus, you can’t really load a real bullet into a prop gun that’s been modified. The casings for the blanks are a little thinner, a little smaller, and they modify the barrel. So a real bullet can’t be put in it.

Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

They make replicas, and they still produce real, single-action revolvers today that are similar to those used in the period that this movie is supposed to take place in, it depends on what kind of gun they were using. But even if they were using a blank firing gun, you know, a prop gun designed to work with blanks. Specifically, there is a possibility that someone could have loaded a live round into that gun, and it could still propel that bullet projectile down and out the barrel towards somebody, even if it's not designed to do that necessarily.

Stephen Gutowski

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It felt pretty good, it had been a little while since I hit one and some of the guys were giving it to me here and there. . . The way my swing works, if I catch the ball on the barrel, it allows me to hit it hard. Right now, it’s going pretty good.

Matt Vierling

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We will have moved the needle and made North Carolina no longer at the very bottom of the barrel of states.

Drew Reisinger

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

This motion was kind of a necessity in terms of kind of staring down the barrel at a statute of limitations, and there’s a significant range of questions about whether there is a civil conspiracy case to be made here, and against whom it should be brought.

Joe McColluch

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

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