barreling

Example Sentences

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Postal Service is again barreling toward insolvency, and on Friday it reported a $2 billion quarterly loss.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026

Airlines canceled thousands of flights because of a winter storm barreling up the East Coast, but that’s not the only thing spreading chaos across the air travel industry.

From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026

But just as they were a couple of miles from safety, someone in the group saw a wall of snow — estimated to be the size of a football field — barreling toward them.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

There’s hockey puck, lots of it: The rowdy U.S. women is barreling into the semifinals, and the NHL stars have finally returned to build a feisty U.S. men’s team.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026

“Unless something comes barreling out of that dark tunnel.”

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan