barrels
Example Sentences
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To increase supply, he has released millions of barrels from the U.S.’s emergency petroleum stockpile, draining the reserve to its lowest level in 44 years.
From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2026
Gross oil supply lost nearly 3 billion barrels of oil, or roughly half the crude and refined products that would normally have moved through Hormuz over the same period, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
The global oil market is set to gain 100 million barrels of oil and refined products over the next four months, thanks to a Group of Seven agreement last week to release some G-7 stockpiles.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
That route is seeing a resurgence of flows, with crude shipments through Hormuz climbing from around 1.4 million barrels a day in late August to around 4.1 million last week, Kpler’s ship-tracking data showed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
In the towns he found that people threw newspapers and magazines into trash barrels, so he could always find something with which to practice his reading.
From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong
