Example sentences for: barrel

How can you use “barrel” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Instead they went with the notion of flood control, which gave them a nice pork barrel budget for public works and allowed rich people build a house wherever they damn well felt like it.

  • My favorite expression from the language of guns (“Gunning for the English Language”) is lock, stock, and barrel . If someone gives you the lock, the stock, and the barrel, you have pretty much the entire musket.

  • Following up on the USAT lead from just over a week ago, the WP lead reports that oil prices have gone down into the $13 a barrel neighborhood, a true boon to the U.S. economy.

  • Congress should not use this money as a pork barrel.

  • Carried here lock, stock, and barrel from downtown in the 1930s, this is the town’s oldest surviving building — a post office, general store, and the only remnant from the original Gastown to have escaped the 1886 fire.


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