How to Use diesel in a Sentence

diesel

noun

• Does your car take diesel or gasoline?
• The tanker, which had a small amount of diesel on board, caught fire.
  — Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ, 7 July 2022
• The air smelled of diesel smoke, and the passengers sat cheek-by-jowl.
  — Marcia Desanctis, Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2023
• The mass arousal seemed to be triggered by the smell of diesel and the noise of revving engines.
  — Ruxandra Guidi, The Atlantic, 19 Nov. 2021
• By 2030, the British government plans to end the sale of new gas and diesel cars.
  — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Nov. 2021
• However, none of this means the U.S. will run out of diesel.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 1 Nov. 2022
• The AfD is the party that speaks to those wanting to stick to diesel cars and gas boilers.
  — Joseph De Weck, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2024
• Aaron Kaufman's car, Old Smokey, set the diesel record two years ago.
  — Gregory Leporati, Ars Technica, 10 July 2022
• And many won’t survive high diesel prices, Kiswani said.
  — John Lippert, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2022
• Instead of diesel, the engine burns methanol, at a rate of three gallons a minute.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
• Compared with six months ago, the price of bread has tripled, the price of rice has tripled, the prices of petrol and diesel have more or less tripled.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 22 July 2022
• At the same time prices of diesel are soaring, farmers are burning more of it.
  — Evan Halper, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2022
• The law envisions a total ban on the sale of new diesel and gasoline cars by 2035.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 24 Mar. 2023
• The district hauled out a diesel generator that ran for hours while the bus charged.
  — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023
• Britain has already decreed the sale of new gasoline and diesel cars must end by 2030.
  — Neil Winton, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021
• That’s true even though diesel trucks make up just a small percentage of the vehicles on the road.
  — Talia Soglin, chicagotribune.com, 15 Dec. 2021
• Over the past few weeks, its petrol and diesel prices have skyrocketed.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 4 Nov. 2021
• New drilling permits had been in the works for a while, and the Tories haven’t nixed their commitment to end the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 10 Aug. 2023
• At the pump, diesel prices in Britain are up more than 35 percent over the last 12 months, according to the RAC, a motorists’ club.
  — New York Times, 3 May 2022
• The 600-amp flashlight jumps engines up to eight liters and diesel engines up to two liters three times from a full charge.
  — Hunter Fenollol, Popular Mechanics, 3 Nov. 2021
• The district fell back on their diesel vehicles to get students to class that week.
  — Hannah Poukish, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2024
• Gasoline and diesel prices have hit record highs in parts of Europe and the United Kingdom, too.
  — Charles Riley and Kevin Liptak, CNN, 5 Nov. 2021
• Katie’s car is a vintage Benz, a diesel, and its engine chugs loudly.
  — Edan Lepucki, The Atlantic, 12 July 2024
• Gasoline and diesel futures each dropped more than 12%.
  — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 26 Nov. 2021
• And a truck on a — with a large tank, large gasoline or diesel capacity, can go up to 2,000 miles.
  — NBC News, 17 Sep. 2023
• Users will be able to choose between gas, diesel, hybrid, and electric (EV).
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 7 Sep. 2022
• Portable gas heaters run on propane, kerosene, or diesel.
  — Nor'adila Hepburn, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 June 2024
• Rice is becoming harder to find in Haiti and diesel costs about $25 a gallon, Wine said.
  — Erika Angulo, NBC News, 4 Mar. 2024
• When the economy slows, gasoline demand drops— along with demand for other refined products like diesel and jet fuel.
  — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 17 Mar. 2025
• They are hermetically sealed, contain diesel or electric engines, and are either self-propelled or carry people who help ensure the drugs get to their destinations.
  — Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2025