How to Use barnstorm in a Sentence

barnstorm

verb

• He spent the months leading up to the election barnstorming around the country.
• The national soccer team barnstormed through the country.
• Spicer and the rest of the movie group barnstormed 11 cities in seven days to promote it.
  — Marisa Miller, Indianapolis Star, 27 Sep. 2017
• The Democrat, for his part, barnstormed with Bernie Sanders.
  — Danny Westneat, The Seattle Times, 26 May 2017
• In a bid to boost his support, Trump plans to barnstorm Iowa over the coming days, with four rallies over the weekend.
  — TIME, 12 Jan. 2024
• For months, Vukmir and Nicholson have barnstormed across the state to court party activists.
  — Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 May 2018
• With the contract, Pyle became the first real football agent, and Grange received a cut of the gate receipts for all the games played on the barnstorming tour.
  — The Si Staff, SI.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• Sure, Taylor Swift has been barnstorming the world on her massive Eras Tour for the past year and is, arguably, the biggest pop star in the universe.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 12 July 2024
• Gov. Adam Gregg barnstormed the state last Friday, after Reynolds picked the attorney as her top deputy and running mate for the 2018 election.
  — Barbara Rodriguez, Seattle Times, 2 June 2017
• Black teams played on city sandlots and country fields, with the best barnstorming their way across the country and throughout the Caribbean.
  — Rob Ruck, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Feb. 2020
• Since the frenzy in Iowa one week ago, candidates have barnstormed the state ahead of its primary on Tuesday, the nation's first.
  — New York Times, 10 Feb. 2020
• Their early polling lead has withered in the face of Blankenship barnstorming the state and spending millions of his money.
  — Tim Loh, Bloomberg.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• The teams barnstormed, played exhibition games during the week or after the season.
  — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 1 June 2024
• In Boston, voters will pick at least three new city councilors among a field of 18 candidates, who have been barnstorming the city.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2019
• And what better way for a company founded by an ex-Uber executive to do that than by barnstorming the rest of the globe.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 1 Aug. 2018
• He's barnstormed the moon in Apollo 10, skimming the surface at low altitudes to map spots for the next mission's historic landing.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 20 Oct. 2017
• New Horizons is going in search of potential new Kuiper Belt objects to barnstorm.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 29 Apr. 2022
• Trump’s campaign canceled events from surrogates who were scheduled to barnstorm in Iowa this week.
  — Mabinty Quarshie, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
• Yet Trump’s rally in Sanford, Florida, came amid concerns that his plans to barnstorm the country could put him and others at risk.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 13 Oct. 2020
• But first, Rubin needed to barnstorm the world of astronomy.
  — Nadia Drake, National Geographic, 27 Dec. 2016
• Create your own eight-team all-star barnstorming league, no team owners needed.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 6 June 2020
• Buttigieg spent the July 4 holiday barnstorming the state and plans three more visits there this month, according to his campaign.
  — Sara Burnett, chicagotribune.com, 7 July 2019
• Many of the teams would barnstorm across the country to play exhibition matches to make money and this was done outside the league’s regular season.
  — Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, 18 Sep. 2019
• The inexhaustible Rachel Chavkin directs, which feels right for a musical about a steely, glamorous woman barnstorming through the art world.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 4 Jan. 2024
• When the country’s first-division league was shut down, taking the players’ paychecks with it, Bradley took the national team on a barnstorming tour of the Middle East.
  — Kevin Baxter, latimes.com, 4 June 2018
• Mike Pence is barnstorming his way from Valdosta to Albany to Vidalia.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 26 May 2023
• Teams from various leagues competed, as well as barnstorming clubs like the legendary New York Rens.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 31 May 2017
• Trump’s campaign has enlisted thousands of volunteers to barnstorm the state ahead of the Feb. 24 primary.
  — Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 6 Feb. 2024
• In the previous weeks, the candidates had barnstormed across District 14 in their own version of the Lincoln-Douglas debates — but even more bitter.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2024
• Both Harris and Trump have spent the last 36 hours barnstorming Michigan, whose 15 electoral college votes are seen by both campaigns as critical.
  — Phillip Elliott / Detroit, TIME, 19 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Dec 2024