The hot barrel of the cannon burned her hands as she scrambled to swing it around.

They threw aside their empty rifles, the barrels hot as though from the furnace.

Mallory, his gun empty, grasped its hot barrel like a club.

As he replaced his Reaper on the ground, the hot barrel hissed against the wet earth.

"They have a tendency to strip and then tumble when the barrel's hot."

Manny didn't know who the man was talking to until he felt the hot barrel of a gun on his temple.

He grabbed the hot barrel at the other end.

I pushed the hot barrel skyward as the last of the rounds exited the weapon.

Behind him, he felt the hot barrel of a rifle press against the base of his skull.

He steadied himself with the hot barrel of the blast pike, forcing his eyes to focus.