How to Use barn burner in a Sentence
barn burner
noun- The game should be a real barn burner.
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Meanwhile, the matchup of the Rams and Chiefs is likely to be a barn burner as well.
— Chris Morris, Fortune, 27 Nov. 2022 -
The two programs will compete for the Victory Bell, and this matchup should be a barn burner.
— Doug Ziefel, Chicago Tribune, 19 Nov. 2022 -
Stapleton has a voice that can’t miss, and his band’s performance in the round was a true barn burner, complete with a pedal-steel solo.
— Justin Curto, Vulture, 10 June 2021 -
Thus far this game has seemed almost eerily quiet compared to the barn burner in Kansas City earlier in the day.
— Benjamin Hoffman, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2020 -
The eCommerce platform that operates at Wish.com specializes in dirt cheap products and the stock hasn’t been a barn burner for much of this year either.
— Chris Morris, Fortune, 11 June 2021 -
Taylor’s stump speech isn’t a barn burner with a dramatic crescendo.
— Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2020 -
The public is clearly rooting for a barn burner to open the new season, evidenced by 57 percent of all wagers coming in on the over.
— Alex Kay, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2021 -
It’s anything but a barn burner, although the violinist does gets some soaring lines and nimble double stops.
— Dallas News, 8 Jan. 2022 -
Three weeks in and there have been upsets, barn burners decided in the final seconds, and marquee wins that will pay dividends in late October.
— Adam Baum, Cincinnati.com, 9 Sep. 2017 -
This six-piece, hard driving bluegrass band from North Carolina is sure to stir souls with their unique blend of songs, ranging range from pulse-pounding, dynamic barn burners to emotional tunes sung from the heart.
— Lois Szymanski, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 27 Aug. 2019 -
If Daniels and Harrell catch lightning in a bottle and get the passing game going against a stout Pitt defense, this game has all the makings of a barn burner, especially with the hosts being shallow on vertical threats.
— Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 29 Aug. 2022 -
That's the reaction from inside Trump's legal team, according to a source familiar with the attorneys' mood after Mulvaney's barn burner.
— Stephen Collinson and Caitlin Hu, CNN, 18 Oct. 2019 -
As political speeches go, Representative Liz Cheney’s address to a packed gym here on Tuesday evening was hardly a barn burner.
— Jonathan Weisman, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2022 -
The Mastermind, an absolute barn burner of a nonfiction book about another elite criminal: Paul Le Roux, a programmer turned drug kingpin.
— Vulture, 24 June 2022
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