oil
Example Sentences
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An oil tanker is upended in a lake, leaving a slick in the previously pristine water.
From BBC
Neither investors nor industry can get enough of the precious metal, while a glut of oil has swamped energy markets and depressed fuel prices.
That has included additional sanctions designed to economically cripple the country and dry up its oil revenues from sales on the global market.
From Barron's
Several times a month, tankers unload tens of thousands of barrels of oil products at a Turkish storage terminal in the port city of Mersin.
While prospectors have long proposed mining the ocean floor, much like oil companies drill offshore, such efforts have come to nothing.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
