How to Use barn burner in a Sentence

barn burner

noun

• The game should be a real barn burner.
• 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

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024