barn burner

noun

: one that arouses much interest or excitement

the game should be a real barn burner

Examples of barn burner in a Sentence

The game should be a real barn burner.

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Buzzer-beaters While the Aztecs were taking care of business, New Mexico was sweating out another Mountain West barn burner. —

Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Jan. 2025 Our job is to cover the immediate past in full, living color, whether the contest is a barn burner or a rout. —

Harper's Magazine, 2 July 2024 Thankfully for fans, Godwin and his slammin' band had rolled through touching ballads and barn burners before the show was stopped by event organizers. —

Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 16 June 2024 At another Trump barn burner, the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson digressed into a lengthy pornographic reverie about a father spanking his daughter. —

Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for barn burner