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
• Aaron Kaufman's car, Old Smokey, set the diesel record two years ago.
  — Gregory Leporati, Ars Technica, 10 July 2022
• Mexico sent nearly half a million barrels of crude oil and diesel in a matter of days.
  — Carmen Sesin, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
• The 9 cents per gallon increase follows a year in which retail diesel prices have nearly doubled.
  — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 1 July 2022
• At current prices, Rumsey noted that prices for natural gas fuel are about half the price for diesel.
  — David Blackmon, Forbes, 30 June 2022
• The 3 percent decline for diesel compares with 7 percent for gasoline.
  — New York Times, 13 July 2022
• But Mark Gibson, a union leader at a diesel plant, still saw Trump’s effect on people.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
• This is one factor exacerbating the upward pressure on finished product prices like gasoline and diesel.
  — Robert Rapier, Forbes, 4 July 2022
• The island of 22 million has nearly run out of useable foreign exchange reserves to import essentials such as food, medicine, petrol and diesel.
  — Reuters, CNN, 29 June 2022
• Beyond this, Volkswagen will continue to offer the option of its long-serving 3.0-liter V-6 diesel.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 7 July 2022
• Last week, doctors, medical staff, teachers and bankers in the capital Colombo marched in protest of their inability to get the necessary petrol or diesel to carry out essential work.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 5 July 2022
• With the majority of their diesel fleet retired, Caltrain offered 19 diesel locomotives and 90 retired silver gallery cars for sale.
  — Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 17 Nov. 2024
• The air smelled of diesel smoke, and the passengers sat cheek-by-jowl.
  — Marcia Desanctis, Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The district fell back on their diesel vehicles to get students to class that week.
  — Hannah Poukish, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2024
• Katie’s car is a vintage Benz, a diesel, and its engine chugs loudly.
  — Edan Lepucki, The Atlantic, 12 July 2024
• 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
• Yes, the peppy little inline-five diesel purrs to life easily on the first crank.
  — Michael Van Runkle, Robb Report, 14 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024