petrol
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Along the roads around Izyum burnt-out shells of petrol stations have become part of the landscape, heaps of mangled, charred metal.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
“We’ve got this sort of mechanically sound car now, and we just need some petrol, and the petrol is capital,” Walker said in an interview.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Mathipa and Tebogo arranged to meet at a petrol station in Pretoria.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
This week he signed into law a bill reducing taxes on diesel and capping commercial markups on both diesel and petrol, a bid to keep energy costs in check.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
Everywhere was the smell of petrol and polish.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
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 Sir Owen Seaman
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