barrels
Example Sentences
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The Florida Panhandle and the rest of the US Gulf Coast are facing fierce winds and heavy rain as the hurricane barrels down.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
The US uses approximately 3.6 million barrels of diesel a day, so even if Russia delivers its promised 300,000 tons this month, that amounts to approximately half of the US daily consumption.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
“Those barrels could help, but they may not fully materialize, and what does arrive will likely still be too little, too late.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
Last month, five men were detained in the woods near RAF Fairford, after driving up from London in vans that contained barrels of fuel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
We have caught it in buckets and barrels to drink, and the river is no longer so salty.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
