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  • verb Present participle of barrel.

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Examples

  • Just then, two Army vehicles came barrelling down the highway, lights flashing, in pursuit of some other vehicle.

    Page 3 2010

  • Was sickened by the kid on the tricycle barrelling down a major thoroughfare.

    Just finding this site now - FAIL Tyler 2009

  • Just then, two Army vehicles came barrelling down the highway, lights flashing, in pursuit of some other vehicle.

    Page 3 2010

  • Or if I would not even try to resist and just smoke the tires barrelling my way in, to cross the valley in record time, without taking a breath the whole way across, exhilarated and choking back a scream, chased by ghosts who tried and failed.

    The natural beauty of desolate West Texas surrounding Marfa. | clusterflock 2009

  • According to the Reutuers/Ipsos survey, 69 percent of respondents think the country is barrelling towards catastrophe.

    HUFFPOST HILL - Obama Talks Deficit, GOP Cups Its Ears And Yells 'LA LA LA' Eliot Nelson 2011

  • Most of them had their heads down, walking as if barrelling through invisible walls.

    One Man's Post Crystal R. R. Edwards 2011

  • After having been barrelling along at 100mph the track comes to a period of relative calm (a flat area in the track) and it undulates up and down beneath you in time to the hi-hat.

    Gaming Soundtracks (and not the kind you’re thinking!) Ben Abraham 2009

  • After having been barrelling along at 100mph the track comes to a period of relative calm (a flat area in the track) and it undulates up and down beneath you in time to the hi-hat.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Ben Abraham 2009

  • Further we all know the eventual effect to the taxpayer with this type of pork barrelling.

    Pad Sci | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • Just then, two Army vehicles came barrelling down the highway, lights flashing, in pursuit of some other vehicle.

    Page 3 2010

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