barrel
noun
a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
barreled
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past participleof barrel.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof barrel.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
barrelnouna cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
Example Sentences
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Eastern time Sunday as a winter storm barreled across the Midwest.
From Barron's ● Mar. 15, 2026
She was cut off when a giant inflatable baby barreled into them.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2025
He’d barreled over wet cobbles past shivering farmers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
Until “Vagrants,” the drama’s fifth episode, Pelphrey and Ruffalo hadn’t shared a scene together; Tom and Robbie barreled along parallel tracks destined to cross.
From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2025
The Recollection skipped forward, moving through flashes of bright images, slowing into real time only when a second car barreled down the road.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
