How to Use barrel roll in a Sentence

barrel roll

noun
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  • Near the front door, there's an entire aisle of drones that can do barrel rolls over the shelving units.
    — Michael J. Mooney, Popular Mechanics, 1 Apr. 2016
  • Cost for each new feature is $15, except the barrel roll, which is free.
    — Weldon B. Johnson, azcentral, 12 July 2018
  • Climbing to the top of the first loop, the train navigates a slow barrel roll at nearly 150 feet in the air that ranks as one of the world's tallest inversions.
    — Brady MacDonald, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 May 2018
  • One will feature a 360-degree barrel roll above the park’s lagoon.
    — Arthur Levine, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2020
  • The level of intricacy afoot here just a few weeks away from the first barrel rolling off the line is staggering.
    — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2018
  • Outlaw Run, which opened in 2013, is the first wooden coaster of its kind to include a double barrel roll.
    — Arthur Levine, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Wochit The long kitchen ceiling is built of bricks, curved into a barrel roll with a herringbone flourish.
    — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 23 Dec. 2017
  • Goodwill games include beer stein racing and beer barrel rolling.
    — Luann Gibbs, Cincinnati.com, 16 Sep. 2019
  • As Larson spun, his back wheels lifted off the ground, the car’s nose crashed against the interior wall and started about a half-dozen barrel rolls before coming to a stop.
    — Pete Iacobelli, The Seattle Times, 18 May 2019
  • The ride features a barrel roll, inversions, Immelmann loop (a roll-off-the-top), hammerhead turn (a cartwheel-style spin) and flat spins.
    — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Mar. 2022
  • Every ramp was slanted, some sloping down to the right, others drooping to the left so that barrels rolled down them like marbles rolling through chutes in a Rube Goldberg-like device.
    — David L. Craddock, Ars Technica, 14 Sep. 2019
  • This means that the water from the bottle in the photo (assuming that the plane was doing some kind of aerobatic spin or barrel roll) would be pressed to the bottom of the plane during the maneuver.
    — Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 10 Dec. 2013
  • The barrel roll that Richard Russell pulled off during his flight Friday evening looked sloppy to experienced pilots.
    — Matt Day, The Seattle Times, 13 Aug. 2018
  • At the very least, the thrillable, unkillable Tom Cruise and his megawatt grin managed to pull off something harder than a Mach-10 barrel roll: a sequel to a 35-year-old movie that actually works.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Buffeted by the winds and recovering from occasional, crazed barrel rolls, the drone nevertheless survives to beam data back to the plane.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 2 Oct. 2017
  • Hoot Brown Intermediate Terrain Park is ever-evolving and includes obstacles like wall rides, big jumps, barrel rolls and more.
    — Nicole Cormier, Dallas News, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Emperor riders will experience inversions, a barrel roll, Immelmann loop (a roll-off-the-top), hammerhead turn (a cartwheel style spin) and flat spins.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Taking a little dip, passengers are almost immediately sent into a barrel roll at a precarious 197 feet in the air.
    — Arthur Levine, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Visitors also can try a family-friendly ropes course, check out a high-flying bungee trampoline, pan for treasures old-west style or challenge themselves physically with an attraction known as the barrel roll.
    — Weldon B. Johnson, azcentral, 12 July 2018
  • The second half of the experience includes several seconds of zero-gravity inversions, including a 360-degree horizontal barrel roll above the lagoon in the center of the park.
    — Julie Tremaine, Forbes, 14 June 2021
  • The illusion requires acting and strong swimming skills: Anderson does underwater somersaults, back-flips, corkscrews and barrel rolls influenced by stunt flying.
    — Andrea Januta and Jennifer Lu, miamiherald, 3 Sep. 2017

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