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  • verb Present participle of barrel.

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Examples

  • The story was an express-train barreling down the track, only no one in the audience knew where it was heading.

    MIND MELD: If We Ran Battlestar Galactica 2009

  • They are like a freight train barreling downhill to their own destruction ...

    RNC resolution won't 'handcuff' Steele, co-sponsor says 2009

  • The story was an express-train barreling down the track, only no one in the audience knew where it was heading.

    April 2009 2009

  • But Flynn appeared to flinch at the sight of Griffin barreling in on him, movement that may have betrayed him.

    USATODAY.com 2008

  • We engaged in the earmarking and pork-barreling, which is corruption.

    What Did It All Mean? Alan Murray 2010

  • But the eye of the storm and that central part of the storm where the most intense winds and the rain appears to be kind of barreling down where we are, kind of crossing diagonally through this portion of Louisiana.

    CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2008 2008

  • What does that tell you, though, about the strategy of kind of barreling through as we see that dramatic shot of somebody, obviously a flame coming out of there, barreling through and not seizing turf in the classic sense?

    CNN Transcript Mar 23, 2003 2003

  • As I'm barreling north ( "barreling", as in excess of 60 mph) on the two track to the next lek, I cross paths with another eagle.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2002

  • To remove this defect the operation of "barreling" has to be again resorted to.

    The Story of the Invention of Steel Pens With a Description of the Manufacturing Process by Which They Are Produced Henry Bore

  • And basically, what I love about this guy as a songwriter is that all of his songs are sort of overstuffed with ideas, and so the longer you spend sort of unpacking his songs, the more you get out of them, and this particular song, which you hear a strumming acoustic guitar, you hear a song that's kind of barreling along insistently, but as you analyze it, you sort of pick apart the fact that it's about a guy who is moved to a biosphere.

    Highlights From 'Song Of The Day' 2010

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