barrel
Example Sentences
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The combined company will be able to produce more than 1.6 million barrels of oil and equivalents a day.
From Barron's
We can see why with the benefit of hindsight, but who predicted oil would reach almost $150 a barrel when it was just $25?
But villagers who repurposed the empty barrels for storing water or food or washing clothes reported rashes, vomiting and other symptoms.
Today, bighorn eke out an existence among the russet-tinged barrel cacti, which they sometimes turn to for water in the harsh desert.
From Los Angeles Times
Floyd has to be able to catch enough birds to sustain his dietary needs, Moore says, and suspects that catching them is like shooting fish in a barrel given the thousands of birds there.
From BBC
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