12 example sentences using barrel.
Barrel used in a sentence
Barrel in a sentence as a noun
They're also staring down the barrel of last year's taxes, which are due in two weeks.
The photos are not the bottom of the barrel when it comes to Hong Kong real estate.
The 'load bearing parts' of a gun are the barrel, the breech and the trigger mechanism.
The "made for google adwords" sites are the bottom of the barrel when it comes to online income.
Put a bad apple in a barrel, leave it there for a short period of time, and observe that all the apples are now bad.
Through the release of this gas, bad apples will "spoil the barrel" if they are not diligently weeded out and disposed of.
Barrel in a sentence as a verb
IBM was truly scraping the bottom of the barrel for their hiring, and in India, they went below the barrel in order to cut costs.
Some goofball tipping over a barrel of solvent in the maint bay could cause many cancers later, and is marginally more likely.
I'd be upset if it were Google, but Facebook is about as bottom-of-the-ethical-barrel as it gets.
Would you buy it for a dinner party?Ubuntu has just classified itself in with the Netzeros of the world, as bottom-of-the-barrel software.
"A little engineer in his shed with a mill down the bottom of the garden could make a proper metal barrel capable of firing a high-velocity bullet.
" model of the Big 4 accounting firms or investment banks: you got the shot at the gig, now work your *** off to make sure you can keep it!If you are a friend of mine and you are staring down the barrel of one of these "contract-to-hire" offers, take my advice: turn it down.
Barrel definitions
a tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is fired
a cylindrical container that holds liquids
See also: cask
a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends
See also: drum
the quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold
See also: barrelful
any of various units of capacity; "a barrel of beer is 31 gallons and a barrel of oil is 42 gallons"
put in barrels