petrol
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"I'm shocked. In this lovely setting where we live," she said, adding she last saw Widdecombe at a petrol station 10 days ago.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Christine Colville said the cost of fuel was having an impact on her social life because she had to save her petrol for getting to work.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Russian social media accounts are full of videos of people queuing for hours to buy petrol and fighting over what little they're allowed.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
The islands' roughly 200,000 inhabitants have queued at petrol stations in recent days and thronged hardware stores to buy plywood and supermarkets for food, bottled water and other essentials.
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
It was crow colored—black, but with petrol sheens of green and purple and deep blue—but the underside of its wings was red.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
There was Mrs. Spankham with a superb model of Westminster Abbey—its petrolling had been the greatest stroke in convincing the voters of the pure motives of the feminists.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 11, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
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