gas station

noun

: a retail station for servicing motor vehicles especially with gasoline and oil

called also service station

Examples of gas station in a Sentence

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Tickets can be purchased in person at gas stations, convenience stores and grocery stores. Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 20 Nov. 2024 The show about Southern gas station attendants and diner waitresses ran for a year, and then refueled to go out on tour. Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Nov. 2024 Witherspoon’s Draper James flagship stands a couple blocks away from where country music royalty Holly Williams (granddaughter of Hank Williams and daughter of Hank Jr.) turned a former gas station into an outpost of her lifestyle boutique White’s Mercantile. Jessica Ritz, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Nov. 2024 Driving south from Bakersville into Asheville, nearly every church, grocery store, gas station, firehouse, and strip mall parking lot had been converted to some sort of supply distribution point or relief hub. Jess Craig, Vox, 17 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for gas station 

Word History

First Known Use

1925, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of gas station was in 1925

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“Gas station.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gas%20station. Accessed 27 Nov. 2024.

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gas station

noun
: a place for servicing motor vehicles especially with gasoline and oil

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