nozzle

Example Sentences

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With crude oil topping $100 a barrel, and the average price of gas in the state approaching $5.50 a gallon, every touch of the nozzle is painful for California drivers.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

"It can look down and spray a nozzle when the sensors pick a weed, while we're going around 15 miles an hour," Leguee says.

From BBC • Jan. 19, 2026

Children suck up lamb and rice through a nozzle, like little astronauts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 10, 2025

HITS-Bio uses a digitally controlled nozzle array, an arrangement of multiple nozzles that moves in three dimensions and allows researchers to manipulate several spheroids at the same time.

From Science Daily • Dec. 3, 2024

Quentin peered inside the nozzle and then ran his fingers inside it, wiping out the greasy residue.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam