Sentence examples for as a barrel from inspiring English sources

Gas with the same energy content as a barrel of oil now sells for about $18, one-quarter of oil's price.

The global space-time diagram for the middle half of the expansion-compression phases can be depicted as a barrel lying on its side.

But what she gets is a tiny pony, round as a barrel, with cute manga eyes – and a propensity for farting when excited.

The Muses handed out their signature hand-strung glass beads from floats that depicted Nagin playing the "race card" in a Cajun variant of poker called bourré, and FEMA as a barrel of monkeys.

In addition to fresh fish, the ship carried some 600 amphorae that contained salted sardines, salted mackerel, and garum (a fermented fish sauce), as well as a barrel of glass fragments for recycling.

But even as a barrel of oil lost more than 6percentt of its value since the Fourth of July weekend, energy analysts warned that it was too soon to predict an outright collapse in prices.

Last week, oil prices plummeted to as low as $20 a barrel as the global economy was sinking into recession and as demand for oil evaporated.

Oil prices that had tumbled to as low as $33 a barrel a year ago recovered to $80 this fall.

RAINWATER harvesting seems as obvious as putting a barrel in your back yard.

Adam Sieminski, a Deutsche Bank analyst, said prices could fall as low as $30 to $35 a barrel next year.

Oil, which has risen 44percentthis yearar, settled as high as $98.18 a barrel on Nov. 23.