Sentence examples for barrelful from inspiring English sources
noun
As much as a barrel will hold.
Taxes rose.He sold the nation's honour to the LibyansFor a barrelful of oil.
By insuring a barrelful of policies, it matters less if one of them is bad.But the law of large numbers is threatened by the rule of precise data.
Sure enough, money is flowing by the barrelful into Mountrail County, transforming a tiny community once proudly situated in the middle of nowhere into an unexpected oasis of prosperity at the heart of the nation's biggest oil play.
Page A11 DIVIDE OVER OIL RICHES There is money by the barrelful for those with mineral rights.
And Mr. Zell, a consummate deal maker, had a barrelful.
They really love to hate it in a week like the one that is drawing to a close, when world leaders appeared by the barrelful for their autumnal gabfest, generally referred to in polite circles as the convening of the General Assembly.
Junk sold by the barrelful and showed that it wasn't that they didn't want to read – it was just that no one was publishing the right kind of material.
Mr. Herbert's presence with two barrelfuls of money and the odor of roses from the sea caused the townspeople and people from nearby towns to rejoice in a festival.
While that may not be the loftiest of ambitions, after the barrage of models' hipbones and barrelfuls of empty hype, sometimes it's nice to be reminded why fashion can, occasionally, be female friendly.
He sucked up deep barrelfuls of air.
They cheered the brilliant costumes [and] scrambled for barrelfuls of candy that were thrown at them.
