How do you use Barrelling in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Barrelling meaning
present participle and gerund of barrel
Using Barrelling
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of barrel
- In the example corpus, barrelling often appears in combinations such as: pork barrelling, barrelling toward, barrelling over.
Context around Barrelling
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 4 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Barrelling
- In this selection, "barrelling" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, pork, water, backs, across, inquiry and forwards stand out and add context to how "barrelling" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a pork barrelling inquiry and black smoke barrelling skywards. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "barrelling" sits close to words such as aadi, aakash and aayush, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with barrelling
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The fund is now the subject of a pork-barrelling inquiry. (11 words)
If pork-barrelling is not corrupt, then, my learned friends, the law is an ass. (15 words)
Demonstrators on Wednesday torched tyres in and around the city, sending thick plumes of black smoke barrelling skywards. (18 words)
But this episode, which in a meta touch has a crew from the fictional ABC documentary series Levers of Power shooting in the office, matches the show's clockwork comic rhythms to some good old-fashioned byelection pork barrelling in northern Queensland. (42 words)
It sent huge clouds of ash barrelling over the surrounding area, blanketing roads, cars and people in thick gray dust as a river of molten mud carved a path down the mountain, sweeping away entire villages. (36 words)
The passing was slick, the press full-blooded, the full-backs barrelling forwards in support, unshackled by the discipline of Lucas Torreira and Granit Xhaka’s resuscitation as the team’s creative heartbeat. (33 words)
Example sentences (10)
Images from Costa Blanca showed submerged streets, overflowing rivers, and fast-moving water barrelling across dry fields before crashing onto highways.
In the last days of the 2022 election campaign, while trying to defend the sports rorts pork barrelling that went against departmental advice, he attacked the public service.
If pork-barrelling is not corrupt, then, my learned friends, the law is an ass.
The fund is now the subject of a pork-barrelling inquiry.
The passing was slick, the press full-blooded, the full-backs barrelling forwards in support, unshackled by the discipline of Lucas Torreira and Granit Xhaka’s resuscitation as the team’s creative heartbeat.
But this episode, which in a meta touch has a crew from the fictional ABC documentary series Levers of Power shooting in the office, matches the show's clockwork comic rhythms to some good old-fashioned byelection pork barrelling in northern Queensland.
Demonstrators on Wednesday torched tyres in and around the city, sending thick plumes of black smoke barrelling skywards.
Ideally, we get an offensive lineman barrelling over a backup tight end in the 43rd attempt for a win.
The Category 2 storm is barrelling toward the region with winds of 140 km/h and gusts of up to 165 km/h.
It sent huge clouds of ash barrelling over the surrounding area, blanketing roads, cars and people in thick gray dust as a river of molten mud carved a path down the mountain, sweeping away entire villages.
Common combinations with barrelling
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: