gasoline
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
In California, gasoline averaged $6.40 a gallon on Friday, compared with $4.65 a gallon one year ago, according to AAA.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Diesel is harder to refine than gasoline and so while UK refineries produce more than the quantity of petrol consumed domestically, they meet less than half of the demand for diesel.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
In the U.S., refiners produce 11-13 gallons of diesel and 19-20 gallons of gasoline from every 42-gallon barrel of crude, according to the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Fewer refinery runs would lead to lower supply of gasoline and jet fuel, raising prices for those fuels.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
The gasoline, he said, helped them make the rescues they did.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
Isobutylene is used in the production of isooctane, a component of some gasolines.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2023
Near Wilmington, N. C., on the Atlantic Ocean, a big plant extracts bromine from the sea, manufactures ethylene dibromide for use in antiknock gasolines.
From Time Magazine Archive
Coloring gasoline was started during the war when dyes were added to aviation fuels to distinguish them from motor car gasolines.
From Time Magazine Archive
Producing so-called designer gasolines is a matter of fine-tuning the refining process.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lastly, it was doomed by the advent of high octane gasolines, first used while it was still in the development stage.
From The First Airplane Diesel Engine: Packard Model DR-980 of 1928 by Robert B. Meyer
Vocabulary lists containing gasoline
