petrol station

Example Sentences

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The garage was completely gutted by the blaze but firefighters worked through the night to stop it spreading to an adjacent petrol station and nearby supermarket.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

A little over a year ago, Donatell bought another petrol station.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

But I heard from a friend that at one petrol station, they capped it at five litres.

From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026

Volunteers have handed out about 40,000 bottles of water since the spillage, which a local petrol station blamed on an attempted fuel theft.

From BBC • Feb. 22, 2026

She stopped by the petrol station near the hospital and was not surprised to see the sign scrawled in chalk: NO PETROL.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie