barrel
noun
a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
barrels
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pluralof barrel.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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present tense formof barrel (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
barrelnouna cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
Example Sentences
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Middle Eastern oil exports recovered to around 20.7 million barrels a day in October from a low of 9.8 million barrels a day in March, although shipments remained below prewar levels, JPMorgan said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
The UK government said the move could produce about 60 million barrels of oil and support hundreds of jobs.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
The bank estimated that supply exceeded demand by 1.1 million barrels a day in September, with the surplus widening to 1.4 million barrels a day in October.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
Oil stocks at Cushing, Okla., the Nymex delivery hub, increased by 280,000 barrels to 27.3 million barrels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 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
